In today’s fast-changing world, where species are constantly evolving and many are disappearing, it’s fascinating to learn ...

The Antarctic sponge may be the oldest animal on Earth, living up to 15,000 years. In the icy waters of Antarctica, extraordinary sponges might be the oldest organisms on our planet.

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet ...

After years of studying the genetics and morphology of the long-frozen nematodes, Shatilovich and her colleagues now claim that the reanimated worms are a previously-undescribed species—one from ...

In the animal world, bigger animals often live ... potentially live up to 500 years old, making them the oldest-living vertebrate on Earth! Even though both the Greenland shark and bowhead whale ...

A new fossil unearthed in Brazil is the oldest known fossil of this species. Modern ants are one of the most dominant animal groups on Earth ... can’t find in any [living] insect today ...

African elephants are the largest land mammals on earth, famed for their wisdom ... roughly translates to ‘sleepy small-head.’ The oldest known living land animal is Jonathan, a Seychelles ...