Researchers document a cluster of ancient Arctic ground squirrel faecal pellets preserved in permafrost at Hunker Creek, ...

Up to 700,000 years ago, ground squirrels in modern-day Canada collected tons of helpful genetic information on their bygone ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

Modern walking fish share the same simple gait, offering new clues about how ancient vertebrates first moved from water onto ...

After nearly 200 million years, crocodilians remain one of evolution's greatest success stories, which we celebrate on World ...

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 evidence ...

Latimeria or Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae Smith), A living fossil, the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods).© Openfinal/Shutterstock.com Nature craves ...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures ...

In many ancient cultures, animals were viewed as messengers of the divine or direct manifestations of deities. Temples, being the most sacred centers of worship, naturally became spaces where animals ...