Scientists found ancient bone chemistry that reveals animal health, diet, disease, and environments from millions of years ago.

Today, if you look across the land of North America, the biggest animal you are going to see is the bison. When you see it in ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or degradation, climate change, forest fires, deforestation, and slash-and-burn and ...

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This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

We often hear about the biggest animals that would easily tower over humans twice, thrice, and some even ten times. But how big, exactly, are they? Let’s take the blue whale, which is known as one of ...

More animals are being run over on Los Angeles streets than ever before, and the lingering effects of the pandemic may be partly to blame. Numbers steadily rising: Through November of this year, the ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

For all the ways rodeo clowning and bullfighting have evolved, one thing that remains consistent is the risk. Injuries are ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

As Ireland drafts a new animal welfare strategy, Irish Examiner reporter Alison O'Reilly’s experience reveals the human cost behind abandoned pets ...