A fossil discovery could transform the understanding of how the brains and intelligence of modern birds have evolved.

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Darren Woods tells COP that demand will keep rising, and the world needs an energy transition that’s profitable for companies ...

Countries promised to move away from coal, oil and natural gas at last year’s climate summit. New research shows they’re ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

The U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP29, starts as the world’s nations have failed to deliver on the central pledge of ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment is considering relocating the E.P.A. out of ...