Now, let’s take a look at some of the animals that really love eating mushrooms. People have long associated pigs with their amazing ability to sniff out truffles. But wild boars seem to enjoy eating ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

Autotomy refers to an animal’s ability to shed or remove a body part as a defense mechanism. This act of self-amputation is most commonly triggered by stressful situations where an animal is either ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

For decades, scientists could not agree on whether to classify the Dickinsonia as an animal or not — until this new study ...

Tortoise shells aren’t just tough armor—they’re living parts of the tortoise’s skeleton, loaded with secrets of survival, ...

Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.

The shells also have “very short, dark brown bristles” on the back of the umbo, or highest peak of the curved surface. Most ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...