Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

In ancient Egypt, animals were not kept at a distance from daily life. People lived with them, named them, and included them ...

Cats have long been cherished as mysterious and magical animals. In ancient Egypt, they were considered sacred, often ...

A fast, land-running Triassic croc reveals how convergent evolution shaped predator bodies across time and environments.

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...

Judging by its giant, claw-like feet alone, it’s easy to see why people think this giant bird is directly descended from dinosaurs such as velociraptors. They are the third largest bird species in the ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

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A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures ...

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal ...