The strange creature—which bears a question-mark shape on its body—roved about like a prehistoric Roomba, researchers said.

Perhaps the best known of these is a wormlike animal called Dickinsonia, which looks like a large dinner plate with ribbed segments emanating from its center. Before then, things start to get murky.

Animals can be put into groups based on the types of food they eat. Some animals called carnivores only eat meat. Others are called ‘herbivores’. They only eat plants. Animals need to eat so ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — An AI model could accurately identify goats in pain, opening up better treatment opportunities for animals and non-verbal ... New Study Maps Dramatic 100-Million-Year Explosion in ...

An international team of researchers discovered a new specimen called Quaestio simpsonorum—a pancake-shaped creature that ...

The paintings of La Belle France in the Free State Province of South Africa show a long, thin, tusked animal. Called ‘the horned serpent,’ researcher Julien Benoit argues that it is not an ...

A groundbreaking research project is finally building the tools to translate just how whales and other creatures communicate.

In doing so, they form complex social relationships maintained by low-cost social investments, such as cleaning and maintaining the fur of another animal, called allogrooming, and higher-cost ...

It's an emerging research field called comparative thanatology, which focuses on how animals react to the dead or dying, the physiological mechanisms that underlie such reactions, and what we can ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report highlights elephants ...

In doing so, they form complex social relationships maintained by low-cost social investments, such as cleaning and maintaining the fur of another animal, called allogrooming, and higher-cost ...