A prehistoric fossil previously thought to belong to the world's oldest octopus has been reclassified as something else.

A family in Leicester heard scratching noises coming from the walls of their garage on Easter Sunday and called firefighters, who rescued three fox cubs that had become trapped inside ...

A fossil harvestman identified using advanced imaging techniques shows that extinct arachnid lineages once lived in Europe.

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...

A rescue team were sent to a cemetary after reports from a "concerned citizen" but when they arrived and began investigating, ...

A strange creature from the deep ocean, Ferreiraella populi, was named by internet users and is now a scientifically ...

Previously unseen bacteria have been discovered inside beached pygmy sperm whales, baffling scientists due to their potential ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

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 ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...