Around 400 million years ago, Earth’s oceans were dominated by massive sea scorpions. Scorpions, as we know them today, are ...

Scientists find strange sea pigs, giant sea spiders, and a butterfly-like animal beneath the Antarctic Ocean’s icy surface.

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was ...

A spat between birds at your backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A petition and letter-writing campaign is being launched in an effort to save the highly popular Insect Zoo at Iowa State University, which officials plan to close at semester’s end after three ...

animals almost as much. Whether your kid likes animated animals or the real deal, these wild series will educate, entertain, and inspire kids to get curious about the animal kingdom. It doesn't matter ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

For over a century, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious fossil called Helmetia expansa, an ancient arthropod from ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.