Birds are living dinosaurs whose ancestors include T. rex and giant penguins. Understanding their past can help us imagine ...

A bizarre, cyclops-like creature from nearly 600 million years ago may hold the key to how your eyes—and even your sleep ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

Open-access research from the University of Kansas appearing in the peer-reviewed journal Ichthyology & Herpetology is giving new detail to the evolutionary history of anglerfishes’ lures, studying ...

Researchers have presented evidence for ancient colossal octopuses — what they believe are the largest invertebrates ever ...

A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators ...

However, despite its impressive adaptations, the mossy leaf-tailed gecko faces growing threats that challenge its survival.

When wildfires swept through Brazil’s Pantanal wetland in 2020, the flames killed an estimated 17 million vertebrates in a ...