For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is easily recognized across the world. With their long necks and distinctive ...

Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges ...

HE’S here to talk about the UFOs… you know, the ones in the forest,” I hear a few of the bar staff whisper. There are no ...

Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study animals’ emotions and personalities — from joy to individual ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms were t.

Meet the roly-poly pill bug, a backyard “bug” that is actually a crustacean cousin of shrimp and crabs living on dry land.

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators ...