Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Some real animals share biological traits that closely resemble the dragons seen in fiction These predators rely on venomous saliva powerful bites and ambush tactics rather than fire or flight For yea ...

What happens next depends on several factors. Predators are usually larger than their prey, so it takes a larger dose of ...

Brown tree snakes, which are invasive in Guam, have caused local extinctions of bird and bat species. Eradication efforts are ...

If the animal kingdom is anything to go by, love is, indeed, a many-splendored thing. We humans may have slightly ...

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...

Like most mammals, humans are diphyodont: We have two sets of teeth – baby teeth and adult teeth. The technical term for our baby teeth is deciduous teeth because they fall out, the same way deciduous ...

New research shows that baby dinosaurs played a crucial role in feeding Jurassic predators and keeping ancient ecosystems ...

Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of ...

White-tailed deer like those on Long Island have significantly expanded their range north into Canada in recent decades, so ...

Wade Crowfoot, California's Natural Resources Secretary, addressed the problem of "human-wildlife conflicts" for state legislators ...

Beaked whales spend most of their time swimming in dark depths, and as they become vulnerable to extinction, this study ...