Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

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

Heartworm disease is caused by the parasite Dirofilaria immitis. It is spread to dogs by mosquitoes and can be fatal. Adult ...

Animals caught acting like humans in hilarious ways. The Trump administration might’ve gone one power grab too far US plane used in boat strike was made to look like civilian aircraft Aaron Rodgers ...

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct ...