In an incredible discovery, scientists have uncovered what they believe is the oldest animal ever found on Earth. Known as ...

Here are seven of the largest animals on Earth, each dominating its environment with size, strength, and impressive ...

Bettongs have a talent for opening extremely hard seeds, demonstrating how biology adapts to extreme tasks, even in tiny ...

A long time ago, tiny crystals formed in seafloor mud and held onto secrets that would puzzle scientists for decades. These ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they are ...

The Darvaza gas crater, also called the “Door to Hell” or “Gates of Hell,” is a burning natural gas crater in Turkmenistan’s ...

Venomous snakes may cause more deaths to humans than constrictors – but the massive strength of constrictors can overtake ...

Camera traps reveal that Amazonian animals use a walkway high up in the forest as a secret night-time highway.

The global search for the most intelligent animals has become one of science’s most captivating pursuits. From jungles to ...

There is a lot to consider when judging the speeds of the world’s fastest birds. Speed can be measured in level flight and ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...