The use of animals for scientific research has a long history and has led to major medical advances, but we should not forget ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was originally intended to be ...

Take a peek inside the Orkin Discovery Zone before it opens at Fernbank Museum on May 2, with live animals and interactive ...

The Maryland Zoo and Johns Hopkins both turn 150 this year, and for decades they've collaborated on conservation work that ...

Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products poses spillover risks, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes The global ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

Hoppers is a deceptively simple story that opens up complex ethical and scientific questions. Jerry (Jon Hamm), the mayor of Beaverton, has marked a forest glade for destruction, so commuters can save ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...

A virus that ordinarily affects marine animals has caused glaucoma-like symptoms and even irreversible vision loss in a small but growing group of people in China. This is the first known time that a ...

From the depths of the ocean to the forest floor at night, some animals can do something that seems almost magical: they make their own light. This phenomenon is known as bioluminescence. But glowing ...