All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another.

In the summer of 2021, a woman in the Atlanta area was forced to surrender her pet serval, a medium-sized wild cat native to ...

An unusual enemy of the moose is dogs. This video is a prime example of how loyal dogs are to their owners and what they are ...

A scientist has discovered a new species of moth hiding in plain sight, thanks to innovations in DNA sequencing.

Coastlines are among the most dynamic environments on the Earth’s surface and the place where marine, terrestrial and ...

According to YouGov surveys, 15 per cent of British men and 22 per cent of US men believe they could beat a chimpanzee in a ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

The saola is a real and documented animal, but it remains a mystery to most experts and researchers. A forest-dwelling bovid that only inhabits the Annamite Mountains along the Vietnam–Laos border, ...

Small mammals are early warning systems for environmental damage, but many species look almost identical, making them hard to track. Scientists have developed a new footprint-based method that can ...

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