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

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

Expand your options for Earth by introducing animals that will interact with the flora and terrain. Earth: Animal Kingdom was designed by Maxime Tardif and published by Inside Up Games, with art ...

In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of life’s origins, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found new evidence suggesting that the first animals on Earth were ...

Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth's earliest animals managed to be picky about where they lived. These creatures from the ...

We know there were animals during Earth’s chilliest era—but we still don't know what they look like. By Chris Baraniuk / Hakai Magazine Published Dec 23, 2022 6:00 PM EST This article was originally ...

Lacking bones, brains, and even a complete gut, the body plans of simple animals like sea anemones appear to have little in common with humans and their vertebrate kin. Nevertheless, new research from ...

Scientists believe that at several times in Earth’s history the planet was covered by ice. Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about ...