Today, only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India. However, the oldest spiny dormouse in evolutionary ...

Fossil and genetic evidence indicates our immediate human ancestors evolved in Africa beginning about two million years ago ...

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Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

A fresh analysis of a fossil found almost 50 years ago reveals a newly described genus named for its "manipulating claw" ...

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A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

Design: Peter Nickolaus Artist's reconstruction of a spiny dormouse in the wetlands of the Hammerschmiede inset shows the upper molar ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...