T here’s an incredible meme that depicts a chicken looking to the skies Simba style and being met with a Tyrannosaurus rex ...

Revealed by a German fossil, the newly described species sheds light on questions that scientists have been puzzling over for ...

In a study published in Science Advances, researchers from Osaka University have discovered for the first time that germ cells, the cells that develop into eggs in females and sperm in males, drive ...

Because all later land vertebrates, or tetrapods ... 90 billion bases), the DNA of the South American species is the largest of all animal genomes and more than twice as large as the genome of the ...

In a new study, US researchers shed light on what they call an "explosion" of animal color signals over the past 100 million ...

Next time you’re walking through fallen leaves in a forest, keep an eye out for the Eastern red-backed salamander—a small woodland creature with a huge role to play.

E ven for nature lovers, there are some animals out there that give even the most dedicated naturalist the heebie-jeebies.

Visual systems of both humans and animals can detect life motion from the environment at the earliest stage of visual ...

From the present, human perspective, it’s not hard to understand the value of fingernails: We might use our upper nails to ...

The visiting zoo animals included an anteater ... said Zane Trace’s third graders have been engaged in learning about the ...

The doomsday fish got its name because it looks like a mythical sea creature, with a long, ribbon-shaped body that can grow ...

The 500-million-year-old primitive fish without bones or teeth has surprisingly advanced anatomical features. “Based on the ...