A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species ...

Scientists are discovering new things about Earth all the time, and one of the latest discoveries may be the first ...

An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a common ancestor of both the platypus and echidna. - Peter Schouten ...

An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70% of the country’s plant life and an area along Angola’s Atlantic coast featuring ...

Antiseptic cream is gently smoothed over a burnt patch on the back of a grass snake. A tortoise in a charred shell is given another day in case it revives. Alongside is an orphaned baby genet that can ...

While the majority of animals (humans included) roam the Earth, some of nature’s most fascinating creatures spend their lives ...

When considering the fastest animals on Earth, size seems like it should matter. Yet the cheetah, weighing around 50 ...

Humans are captivated by the idea of finding life elsewhere in the universe – and even more by the idea that life, if found, might resemble the complex, animal life here on Earth. One of the easiest ...