For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million ...

The classification of animal groups is essential to the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is ...

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A co-founder of the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere has been ordered to pay $191,000 in restitution to two Sonoma County poultry farms for protests he and other DxE supporters staged ...

PHOENIX — As animal shelters across the state are over capacity, two Valley rescue groups are offering free adoptions to help clear up space. AAWL is waiving adoption fees for all dogs and cats at its ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

EVANSVILLE — Reduced adoption fees and incentives are the tools of animal welfare organizations who have announced a new push to find homes for pets in what they call a "crisis" situation. The Indiana ...