For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

A research team has created artificial animals that over time develop functioning vision from scratch - from simple light sensitivity to the ability ...

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

Scientists from several countries have identified a new dinosaur species called Foskeia pelendonum, a very small plant-eating ...

OLLOBOT reports on the rise of cyber-pets, AI-driven companions reshaping relationships in a digital age, signaling evolving ...

Sloths are some pretty interesting animals. Beyond their reputation for being slow, a host of different traits reveals a lot ...

No natural phenomenon provides a rarer chance to study the secrets of the animal world than a total solar eclipse. This was ...

Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that vertebrates make higher numbers of different forms of ...