Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

Dinosaurs ruled Earth for millions of years, but according to the most widely accepted theory, a massive asteroid wiped them ...

What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, for a long time considered a key to the distant past, is now in the middle ...

Scientists say this shark has hardly changed since it first appeared millions of years ago. That’s why they’re so fascinated ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in the water, not on land. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that ...