A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Latnija cave discoveries show Mesolithic humans crossed 100 km of sea to reach Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously ...

A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding light on a booming, ancient ... made with seal and walruses ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

While receding water levels may create some new islands, further research is needed to assess their suitability for seals. Sturgeons are an ancient family of large fish, and critically endangered ...

“The seal was rarely depicted in medieval art and did not hold a place in heraldry, which developed at that time. This lack of representation might have contributed to a detachment from the ...

“The seal was rarely depicted in medieval art and did not hold a place in heraldry, which developed at that time. This lack of representation might have contributed to a detachment from the animal’s ...

It was a special moment for two men serving time in San Quentin's prison when they got reunited with two dogs they trained to be service animals. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is seeking the public's ...

The animals, he says, are dire wolves ... “Not only can we identify ancient genes and predict what they do, we can engineer them into cell lines, and we can successfully and healthily create ...

But there is another ancient source of political wisdom ... It is a striking collection of animal fables from perhaps around 300 C.E. in which birds, lions and others speak and reason as ...