Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Cats, dogs and farm animals are what come to mind when we think of domesticated animals. For ages, domestication has been ...

A special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B takes a bold step toward redefining one of the most ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...