From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

While the majority of animals (humans included) roam the Earth, some of nature’s most fascinating creatures spend their lives ...

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor of complex animals to evolve, unhurriedly splitting to make new species ...

From glass-like sea creatures to dragon-faced mammals, know about these 10 rare animals that look fictional but actually ...

Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that are 538 million years old. The rapid arrival of animals so different to ...

Sitting in my campsite at Goblin Valley State Park, I saw an antelope ground squirrel standing erect on its back feet, which I found amusing. I soon found that this was a common posture evoked by ...

A 370 million-year-old fossil found in Scotland is an entirely new form of life which towered 26ft tall, scientists have confirmed.

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...