New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

You probably know that the king cobra is the largest venomous snake known to humans, but what if this isn’t entirely true? It ...

Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a new species of worm-like caecilian from the northern Western Ghats. The new species, ...

The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Described by one researcher as looking ‘already dead’, the enigmatic creatures are one of the least understood species on the planet ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass, and disrupts ecological processes, thereby posing challenges for the ...

The latest installment in the blockbuster film franchise introduced audiences to a cute and tiny herbivore known as an ...

When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...