Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in northwestern Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

It's always fun to spot a new or unique animal in the wild. This rare mammal was recently spotted in North America, however, ...

It is estimated that there are between 700,000 and one million creatures living in the ocean. To date, approximately 242,500 ...

It’s believed Darla, who recently gave birth to seven puppies, was not shot at but instead was hit by a ricocheted bullet.

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the Paleocene period ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...

A tiny jaw fossil in east-central Greenland leads to the discovery of a new mammal-like species, Nujalikodon cassiopeiae, from 200 million years ago.