The pink dolphin of Sirius made contact, and a little while laterthis time, the black panther of Sirius turned its consciousness toward me.When you hear 'black panther,' some of you may know that ther ...

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

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 ...

Not everyone is convinced. Some scientists have argued that animals did not exist before 590 million years ago, pointing to China's Weng'an Biota—the youngest known fossil deposit with no animals in ...

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

Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving rapidly, raising questions about whether the northern lights will shift as well. A new ...

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Animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than fossil evidence suggests, according to new research.

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

Centring on the Amazon rainforest, the Kalahari Desert, the Australian reefs and the Rocky Mountains, each episode of Earth’s Magic Moments (working title) intertwines the stories of seven or eight ...

Learn how new research challenges long-held assumptions about animal evolution and suggests that the earliest animals may ...