Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old young male horse inside Egypt’s ancient Abqaa’ fortress, suggesting it may have been used to pull a chariot. Nearby harness fittings point ...

Scientists say they have identified an extinct crocodile species from about 45 million years ago in the limestone formation ...

Far beneath the cold waters off British Columbia, an extraordinary ecosystem is thriving in near-total darkness, a vast ...

A handful of unremarkable bone fragments from caves in southern Siberia have turned out to hold an extraordinary evolutionary ...

Microfossils from Mongolia suggest the first animals may be up to 200 million years older than their oldest clear fossils, a new study finds.

After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 ...

Ancient Egyptians created approximately 70 million animal mummies over a period of 1,500 years.Dogs alone account for an estimated 7.8 million. Ibises number over 2 million. Cats are even more ...

Fossil teeth reveal that seaweed and other ocean-derived food may have supported dinosaur ecosystems along Cretaceous coastlines.

New research reveals how genetic isolation, continued hunting, and shrinking grazing habitat combined to drive Scandinavia’s ...

New Year's folktales and a sudden sense of unease'Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit...'When the year-end and New Year holidays arrive, ...

It may be time for the animal kingdom to reset its clock. According to a new study by an international group of researchers, ...

Protecting individual animals matters, but when healthy populations are able to fulfil their ecological roles, the benefits ...