New Zealand's endangered kākāpō are in surprisingly good genetic condition, despite millennia of inbreeding.
Foul-mouthed "Ripper" was a male musk duck who lived in Australia.
The new footage is the first to capture an angel shark swimming off the coast of Wales.
The roundworms can warn others to avoid bacteria by transferring genetic material.
Museum samples, sketches, and written accounts allowed for an accurate representation of the marsupial’s true colors.
Dogs behaved differently when people intentionally kept food from them versus when they were "accidentally" unable to feed them, according to new research.
Scientists aren’t entirely sure how tiny tardigrades evolved insect-like walking skills.
Meet T. alcoberi , a critter that lived over 200 million years ago.
Scientists were surprised to discover wasp nests glowing brightly under a UV flashlight.
Smugglers had cut the fossil into six pieces, but paleontologists have been able to reconstruct it.
Rhinos are barely hanging onto survival today, but over 100 species of these horned beasts roamed Earth in the past.
A biologist described the attack as "very, very strange, and totally different from normal tortoise behavior.”
A recent study found that acceptance of evolution among Americans has increased, even among religious fundamentalists.
Paleontologists examined the braincases of two daspletosaurs and were surprised to find significant differences between them.
Scientists say that sea snakes' seemingly aggressive behavior toward humans may actually be misguided courtship.
The animals are condylarths, extinct predecessors to modern-day ungulates like horses and rhinos.
New research identifies five genetic phenotypes of dog coats, one of which can be traced back over 2 million years.
Paleontologists have reconstructed the life history of a male mammoth who traveled across Alaska 17,000 years ago.
Data from over 1,000 great ape interactions indicate that bonobos and chimps follow certain social customs, much like humans.
Similar strains have led to mass deaths of dolphins near Australia and Brazil.
