Scientists have discovered a 405-million-year-old fossilized fish that shares characteristics of modern bony fishes and land vertebrates.

Of the 95,000 hectares in Dartmoor National Park, 36,000 are registered as common land. | ITV News West Country ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.

Snails are the common name for land snails, or terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. In simple terms, land animals that breathe with lungs, in the class Gastropoda, that have a shell.

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See the Top 5 most common invasive animal and insect in every state In 2018, the top invasive animals reported by national parks spanned a wide variety of species — including European starling ...

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With convergence so common in nature, sauropods' uniqueness in size is special in itself. No other land animal has approached even a third of the largest sauropods' weight.

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.

This interactive map shows every state's most common invasive animal and insect. Here are the species that plague Ohio.

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.