For a long time, cooperation in the animal world was viewed largely through the lens of competition's opposite: a useful alliance that helps two species gain something neither could achieve alone. Yet ...

Life on our planet began in the water. Eventually, one branch of the fish family tree developed legs and came up on land.

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable them to survive. For example, marmots and ground squirrels in California ...

Paleorex is back on Bored Panda with his detailed, science-based creatures, showing us how animals like big cats, birds, and reptiles might evolve in the future. In this article, we’re featuring even ...

It’s about studying the intelligence of movement. Local scientists who built basic bots say they’re learning how animals evolved. And that knowledge, they say, may have deeper applications for humans.

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The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain how modern birds and fish evolved the ability to use the Earth’s magnetic ...

Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other specialized tissues, were the first animal ...

Baby crocodile-like early tetrapods called embolomeres. New fossil evidence suggests that these embolomeres did not undergo a metamorphosis the way that modern amphibians do when growing up, which ...