Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

The $148,000 award supports collaborative research and community outreach on Pennsylvania’s Devonian fossil record.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A fossilised dolphin has been found in Antarctica. A new species of dolphin has been described. And ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

Scientists have also long thought that the earliest leeches were bloodsuckers. All modern leeches, including species that do not consume blood, possess a suite of anticoagulants. But Macromyzon lived ...

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A new study has warned that 15% to 30% of the Philippines’ land-dwelling vertebrates could vanish, with amphibians and ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Animals. Followed categories will be added to My News. Scientists proved that the sea still holds some big mysteries after capturing footage of the colossal squid ...

By Keith Anthony Fabro The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless ...