“Rattlesnakes are the pinnacle of vertebrate evolution,” said Colclough, who considers himself an ardent supporter and ...

Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant ...

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal ...

22, 2025 — Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution ... it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals that both structures ...

Kinorhynchs are small animals ranging from 100 micrometers to one millimeter that are part of the meiofauna, a highly ...

Scientists have found a fungus that creates spider zombies after they accidentally stumbled upon it in a Victorian gunpowder ...

The other night, illuminated by my car's headlights, I saw a fluttering speck. A moth. A single, solitary moth. And, during ...

In Central Australia, the Tjakuṟa (great desert skink, Liopholis kintorei) is a culturally important species for Tjukurpa—the ...

From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

When a shark egg appeared one day in a shark tank at a Louisiana aquarium, staff were puzzled. That’s because the tank only ...