Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

According to the Sussex Dolphin Project, the fishing net of a supertrawler can be 10 times the length of the ship itself at ...