A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

V isit the Antarctic and you’ll find penguins. Lots of penguins. Chubby, slow (on land, at least), feathery penguins. And do ...

Joy—fleeting woo-hoo moments like "catching the perfect wave"—is felt by many diverse animals, and researchers want to know how they express it in various situations and why.

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the evolution of spinnerets.

As Brazil’s Atlantic Forest shrinks, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species appear to be shifting toward humans.

A study of wild African herbivores offers new insight into how environmental conditions—not just diet and anatomy—can ...

A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea jellyfish, which belong to a 500 million year-old ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

It’s not always clear why dogs and cats are abandoned or surrendered, but one rescue organization describes it as a “rolling ...

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ ...