Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little ...

The Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails include everything from alpacas, anteaters and bush dogs to miniature donkeys, ...

What makes this discovery stand out is not just its age, but its clarity. Earlier finds hinted at early domestication, but ...

Dead animals were not disposed of properly and animals were wrongly segregated ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

In the very heart of the ancient lands of Eurasia, a major scientific discovery has shed new light on one of the oldest and ...

Meet the “hell heron” of the Sahara, a newly discovered spinosaur with a towering blade-like crest and a highly specialized ...

A small fragment of bone, tucked away in a museum drawer for decades, has quietly shifted what is known about the long relationship between humans and.

Performing Animal Welfare Society opposes display of white tigers as outdated, inhumane, and inconsistent with ...

Flower nectar contains small amounts of alcohol, and animals like hummingbirds and bees consume it daily without harm.

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...