A 550-million-year-old sea sponge fossil discovered in China is helping scientists resolve a 160-million-year gap in the ...

Dragonflies and humans can see colors similarly, thanks to a common protein in the eye that resulted from parallel evolution.

A watchdog group has filed a federal complaint alleging that the Johns Hopkins University repeatedly violated animal welfare ...

New grants support organoids, organs-on-chips, and in silico approaches to reduce reliance on animal models, but experts say ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Justin Schmidt, an entomologist, first created the Schmidt sting pain index in 1983 ...

Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Scientists call this ability "entrainment," which simply means syncing your movement to an external rhythm. Humans do it all ...

KUNMING -- Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans long ...

Scientists have found post-research homes for dogs, cats, rats, and many other kinds of animals, but adopting them out does ...