A newly described species of ancient marsupial, Swaindelphys solastella, has been identified from fossils found in Texas’ Big Bend National Park. The discovery reveals that this metatherian – a group ...

The fossils were found at Big Bend National Park in Texas. Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend ...

This study is led by Wang Xueting, Dr. Wang Xu, and Dr. Chen Zuoling from the State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy ...

A 62-million-year-old fossil shows Mixodectes was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates. The discovery sheds light on early mammal evolution. Credit: Stephen Chester A ...

Using fossil evidence and genetic dating, geneticists and paleontologists have backed strikingly different candidates for the world's first animal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience ...

Last December an Instagram Reel of a “crying” bison—created by photographer Chris Henry—went viral. The video has received more than eight million views and generated thousands of comments. But can ...

Stuffed animals have a special place in the hearts of children and adults alike. The best stuffed animals can evoke warm memories of comfort and, unsurprisingly, kids usually grow quite attached to ...

With Party Animals, developer Recreate Games takes the goofy joy of floppy, physics-based multiplayer games like Fall Guys, Gang Beasts, and Human: Fall Flat and puts its own spin on them. Instead of ...

This work arose and was funded, in part, from a CIB Fellowship awarded to Benjamin Allen by the inter-institutional Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB) Centre of Excellence in South Africa, co-funded ...

In 1971, a half-dozen graduate students at Oxford University held what was perhaps the first protest of the modern animal rights movement. They insisted that respecting animals was a moral imperative.