Birds across the planet share a learned warning cry that may echo the origins of language itself. Bird species that live thousands of miles apart and diverged millions of years ago are using ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

When a predator like a lion walks through the grasslands, it makes its presence known by roaring, which can be heard miles ...

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

This particular species of pantylid (dubbed Tyrannoroter heberti after its discoverer) existed 307 million years ago and harbored some surprises within its tiny skull. Using a CT scan, researchers ...

In healthy ecosystems, mosquitoes feed on a wide range of animals, including birds, amphibians, and mammals. But when those ecosystems lose species, mosquitoes are left with fewer choices. New ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

"Such effects work together to make diversified plantings in farms, grasslands, and forests more biologically resilient and productive ecosystems," said Wan Nianfeng, a lead researcher on the team and ...

A surprising phenomenon is being observed in mosquitoes in Brazil. As the Atlantic Forest loses ground, these insects, which previously took their meals from a great diversity of animals, are ...