From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

There’s no doubt that before finally disembarking all the animals, Noah made a brief, undocumented stop in Australia. There ...

All-female animal groups including the Amazon molly fish, Komodo dragon and hammerhead shark.

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

Researchers in Canada discovered 567-million-year-old Ediacaran fossils that may contain the earliest evidence of sexual ...

It ran on the tips of its toes. Its bite was brutal enough to take down a titan. And its neck was so strong, there was no way ...

What if the world’s ugliest animals are actually some of nature’s greatest survival experts? At first glance, creatures like ...

A large wildfire has burned a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park — an area home to ...

T. rex and other giant dinosaurs evolved tiny arms because their skulls and bites became powerful enough to replace forelimbs ...

Wildlife rescue station staff in the Changbai Mountains release a hand-hatched Chinese merganser by a river. Photo: Courtesy ...

Deep in the high-altitude forests of Uttarakhand, researchers have discovered a striking new spider species named Theridion ...