Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is because snake venom is not a ...

A fossil from the blustery plains of Patagonia is revising your book on one of the most elusive bands of hunting dinosaurs. The newly discovered dinosaur, Joaquinraptor casali, preyed on the soggy ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

For nearly all of Earth’s history, humans weren’t around to witness its most extraordinary animals. Long before Homo sapiens ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Spiders are quite intelligent regarding survival, and the example that illustrates this best is that of Cyclosa orb weavers.

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...