Though sea spiders have thrived for millions of years in a variety of marine conditions—in cold Antarctic waters, on deep ...

According to the BBC, there are an estimated 8.7 million species of animals in the world.Experts believe some of these species will go extinct before they are able to be studied. It’s believed ...

A 437-million-year old scorpion was the earliest known creature to venture from sea onto land, a new study has found, shedding new light on one of the earliest chapters in the planet’s ...

In January of 2022, Guinness World Records identified the oldest land-living animal, Jonathan, a 190-year-old tortoise, making him the oldest tortoise ever. The official title reads “oldest ...

Whether by land or by sea, there are plenty of animals big enough to humble even the mightiest among us. Learn more about the largest animal in the world below, along with its scrawny counterpart ...

By land, by sea and by air there are different champions of speed. Here’s your breakdown of the world's fastest animals. What is the fastest land animal in the world?

With time, the back-to-the sea creatures would give rise to animals vastly different from their land-trotting kin: They became the magnificent whales, dolphins, and porpoises that glide through ...

A sandstone slab imprinted with clawed footprints could mean that four-legged animals (tetrapods) transitioned from sea to land 35 million years earlier than previously thought.That finding of the ...

Sea creatures pollinate marine plants and algae, surprising scientists. Once thought to be a land-only phenomenon, pollination may have existed in the ocean millions of years before terrestrial ...