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

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

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

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots separated by large areas of deep ocean. In these zones, surviving jawed ...

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 ...

The Greenland shark is thought to live for about 400 years but somehow its eyes appear to barely deteriorate, according to a new study that has implications for human health.

Read how ancient Greenland sharks' bodies preserve their eyesight for hundreds of years and what this means for older humans.

Three new species discovered on Dauan Island: two frogs and a unique gecko survive in rocky shelters in the Torres Strait.

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