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

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.

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

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.

A study of more than 2,000 species reveals animal populations around the world - from the very common to endangered species - are going up and down as global change alters land, sea and freshwater ...

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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 ...

Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...

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.

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.