Animals seem to appear in the fossil record fairly suddenly, a little over half a billion years ago. Yet rocks can preserve ...

The toad is one of the world’s most destructive invasive species, after being introduced to countries as a biological control ...

The animal kingdom may have started its journey on a much earlier Earth than scientists once thought. Long before ...

African elephants are animals that live by walking slowly through vast savannas and woodlands, and their presence is so ...

From a fitness-obsessed bear to a rather rude orangutan, here are 10 of the most amusing photos of the animal kingdom this ...

Animals experience the world in surprising ways humans cannot, a difference at the heart of this year’s World Animal Day theme.

The oldest known animal fossils are about 574 million years old, but the fossil record is too sparse to reveal when Earth’s ...

Wild African elephants appear to use body movements as deliberate signals. They watch other elephants before and during gestures.

The first animals may have appeared hundreds of millions of years earlier than their clearest fossils suggest. A new study ...

New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived ...

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to ...

New research shows that a remote, uninhabited volcanic island has lost over half a million chinstrap penguins in 15 years to ...