Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

Antisthenes, Cynic philosopher and tutor of Diogenes, championed simplicity, virtue, and freedom, influencing Stoic thought.

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Horseshoe crabs face serious danger when they become flipped or stuck, because exposure can quickly turn fatal. This video captures a tense moment in the shallows as one horseshoe crab appears to ...

One of the weirdest animals that ever lived may have been a scavenger. A re-examination of fossils first described in the 1970s seems to show a swarm of Hallucigenia feeding on the corpse of a comb ...

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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 ...

Evolution is usually a masterpiece of efficiency, but every once in a while, it feels like the natural world ran out of resources and had to finish a project using whatever leftovers were in the bin.