The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

The land of Australia is inhabited by some of the most exotic fauna that can be found on the planet, due primarily to its ...

An artistic reconstruction of the deathbed of Pohlsepia mazonensis, 300 million years ago. (Franz Anthony/Clements et al., ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

Evolution rarely hits delete. Instead, it leaves behind living relics built for animals that no longer exist. Avocados are one of them.

Scientists in England have discovered a strange 215-million-year-old “greyhound crocodile” named Galahadosuchus jonesi.

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in ...

A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...

Conservation of bird species has been a major concern for decades. However, the rate of species loss is accelerating due to ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

For over 100 million years, squid and cuttlefish quietly evolved in the darkness of the deep ocean, invisible to the ...