It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Ancient Greek myths of dragons, krakens, and other legendary creatures were inspired by real animals and fossils alike.

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests ...

Nature is blessed with animals that are endowed with innumerable interesting colours but when we think of white animals, they seem to only come out of an animated movie. And while these animals are ...

A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...

Cole & Jay watch ancient beasts swarm a spillway in an epic frenzy. Trump’s shutdown win just landed Republicans with a huge political headache US gets serious about drone threat after "Russia's Pearl ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you think. A classic example of phoresy, the remora uses a modified fin that ...

It’s the AI-nimal Kingdom. The internet is becoming inundated with AI-generated wildlife clips, from bizarre interspecies playdates to animal trampoline sessions. While they might be adorable, these ...

Extraction and sequencing of ancient DNA has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of numerous extinct species, but DNA can only tell us so much. RNA, however, can tell us which genes were actually ...