Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton – how much the ...

The use of fibre-optic drones in frontline areas is leaving debris in fields that can become traps for animals and birds and ...

Researchers now have 56 GPS-collared moose in the Upper Peninsula as scientists work to explain why the herd has fallen well short of earlier projections.

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. A new study led by Professor Gemma Harvey from Queen Mary University of London has revealed how hundreds of species shape ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

Severe COVID-19 raises lung cancer risk by 24%, study of 76 million Americans finds In A Nutshell People hospitalized with severe COVID-19 had roughly a 24 percent higher risk of developing lung ...

Urban scavengers like spotted hyenas are preventing more than 1,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually in Ethiopia's second-largest city, according to new research revealing the predators' role ...