Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed—and therefore our climate, new research shows. Convex ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

An analysis of the interior of a single bone suggests its owner was probably an aquatic or semi-aquatic animal. Since the ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia could turn what we know about the evolution of echidnas and platypuses on its head.

Close your eyes and imagine stepping into a British garden where wildflowers sway with the breeze, bees buzz in dappled ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...