Invertebrate research bias in ecology is measurable and worsening: a new audit of 1.38 million papers across 612 journals by ...

A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in China with its throat anatomy preserved, ...

A new study shows that black-browed albatrosses won’t survive climate change unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.

A new analysis of exceptional fossil sites in China and Mongolia suggests the earliest animals could have evolved up to 200 ...

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 ...

How the AVOHS bridges human, animal, and environmental health to strengthen global disease prevention and preparedness.

Yeroen the chimpanzee was limping.However, whether it was his right leg or his left leg—that changed depending on who he was ...

From crocodiles and sharks to bats and orcas, these animals have evolved remarkable abilities for finding, chasing and capturing prey. Some rely on speed and powerful jaws, while others use ...

The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the ...

After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The commonalities they’re unearthing offer a trove of clues about our mutual ...

Once upon a time, there were a bunch of one-celled microbes, swimming, eating, reproducing, doing all the things that a one-cell bit of life can do. Then, some time later, there were their descendants ...