There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

The animal kingdom is no stranger to astonishing abilities, including the remarkable power to regenerate lost or damaged body ...

Some animals use a fascinating survival trick called thanatosis, or playing dead, to escape predators. This behaviour ...

New genomic analysis of the golden sweeper has shown that it uses its prey (bioluminescent ostracods) to obtain its ability ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

The findings show how the H5N1 bird flu virus is evolving in livestock and what that may mean for human health.

The American pocket shark, from the Gulf of Mexico, boasts the unusual adaptation of emitting flourescent fluid from pouches.

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

These horned lizards turn their lunch into a loaded weapon - then fire the leftovers straight from its own eyeballs.

Rainforest animals are often darker in colour, and this is not a coincidence. A scientific principle known as Gloger’s Rule ...