These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still ...

Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

Animals played a significant role in ancient Greek life, initially for practical use and gradually extending beyond that.

Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

Scientists found ancient bone chemistry that reveals animal health, diet, disease, and environments from millions of years ago.

The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet and weighing more than 300 ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...