The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Missing animals in exceptionally preserved rocks expose uncertainty in the fossil constraints used to date the animal kingdom ...

A new analysis of exceptional fossil sites in China and Mongolia suggests the earliest animals could have evolved up to 200 ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand may be further revealing what scientists know about how animals evolve. University of Iowa biologists have traced the snail’s evolutionary history through its ...

WASHINGTON — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

The FINANCIAL — A tiny spotted wild cat in Bolivia has become one of the most unusual zoological discoveries of 2026. But the story is bigger than a new species: modern genetics is revealing that ...

An international team of researchers have published a new review in Animal Behavior revealing how communication enables cooperation between different animal species. The review, titled "The ecology ...

The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives. Choanoflagellates, like most single celled ...

After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 ...