Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to land, researchers say.

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

Cassowaries Judging by its giant, claw-like feet alone, it’s easy to see why people think this giant bird is directly ...

Based only on jawbones, scientists have described a new salamander-like animal that would have been a “living fossil” for its ...

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a ...

Ancient DNA shows an old Irish goat breed dates back to the Bronze Age, linking modern goats to animals raised in Ireland ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

It doesn’t matter the year, the location, or your station; wild animals can take you down with the type of unflinching ease ...