Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is because snake venom is not a ...

A fossil from the blustery plains of Patagonia is revising your book on one of the most elusive bands of hunting dinosaurs. The newly discovered dinosaur, Joaquinraptor casali, preyed on the soggy ...

Each year on the Serengeti, hundreds of thousands of wildebeest calves are born within weeks. Here's how the young predators ...

Quick Take New vertebrate fossils reveal a more ancient mega-shark years before Megalodon This mega-shark was found in Australia The finding rewrites the historical timeline of shark evolution Long ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

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Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Spiders are quite intelligent regarding survival, and the example that illustrates this best is that of Cyclosa orb weavers.