Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived ...

This snake's size makes it one of the largest snakes that ever lived, rivaling the size of the enormous Titanoboa.

"Where there is water, there is life. Without it, where are we going to live?" asks Leobardo Sierra, a 48-year-old Wayuu Indigenous leader from Colombia. He lives at the foot of Cerrejón in La ...

Named Vasuki indicus, and identified in a new paper published in Scientific Reports, this new snake slunk through the Eocene ...

From Titanoboa and Vasuki — prehistoric snakes as long as a Tyrannosaurus rex — to modern-day pythons and boa constrictors that can swallow humans whole, these are the biggest, heaviest and ...

Reference: Zoratto N, Klein‐Cerrejon D, Gao D, et al. A bioinspired and cost-effective device for minimally invasive blood ...

The documentary Las Huellas Del Cerrejón compiles the experiences of some people who live next to the largest coal mine in the world Cerrejón The responsible mining as the extraction of coal ...

A new device for taking blood samples uses microneedles and a suction cup instead of a large needle. People with a phobia of needles stand to benefit. More blood can be obtained than with the classic ...

The head of a US law firm that has set up shop in Australia says more class actions against BHP and other miners are likely.

The law firm waging a class action case against BHP on behalf of more than 700,000 claimants following the 2015 Mariana dam ...