Kangaroos are adaptable animals. Consequently, they can be found in a variety of environments, including forests and woodlands, grasslands and plains, and even deserts. As long as there is plenty of ...

Evidence of the earliest known reptile-like animal, an ancestor of many four-limbed creatures including birds, reptiles and mammals, has been found in Victoria, Australia. The discovery could push ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Imagine you could live and breathe as comfortably underwater as you could on the land. Fascinating, isn’t it? While this may not be naturally possible for humans, some animals are built to thrive in ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved similar genetic solutions to survive on land, according to a new study ...