The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol ...

A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, provides the strongest evidence to date that cancer is extremely ...

Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.

Turtles have been around for 200 million years—outliving dinosaurs, surviving ice ages, and basically minding their own ...

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...

While humans are lucky to live 80 years, some members of the animal kingdom live much longer. Bowhead whales, Greenland ...