The decision comes after nearly half a million people cast their votes from a shortlist of 18 creatures.

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New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived ...

An Oxford-led team reworked the molecular clock for animal origins and landed on 800 to 700 million years ago, near the start of Earth's ice ages.

In Cozumel, Mexico, divers join biologists studying the unusual animals living inside Aerolito cenote, a vast cave system connected to the nearby ocean. Sensors inside the cave monitor environmental ...

Microfossils from Mongolia suggest the first animals may be up to 200 million years older than their oldest clear fossils, a new study finds.

Learn how new research challenges long-held assumptions about animal evolution and suggests that the earliest animals may ...

Colorado State University researchers have developed an open-source, $100 collar-mounted smoke logger that measures PM2.5 ...

We — and the American Association of Swine Veterinarians — believe Proposition 12 is the wrong approach. Animal welfare ...

Animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than fossil evidence suggests, according to new research. The Oxford ...

Five freshwater mussel species new to science were identified in Southern rivers. Several are rare and live in only a few ...