The animal kingdom is fascinating and beyond human imagination. There are some animals which have evolved and they live ...

On working land, nuisance animals are rarely just a minor irritation. A raccoon in the feed room, feral hogs in the hay field, or groundhogs under a barn can quietly erode your margins, damage ...

Evidence of the earliest known reptile-like animal, an ancestor of many four-limbed creatures including birds, reptiles and mammals, has been found in Victoria, Australia. The discovery could push ...

A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals first appeared on land. The newly described species is one of the earliest ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For ...

Shokoofeh Shamsi receives funding from from various government and research organisations for work in parasitology and environmental health. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Marine and Freshwater ...