Fossils Reveal How and When Giraffe Necks Grew Long
The giraffe's neck evolved in two stages, millions of years apart.
What is it, what does it do, and why don't humans have one?
And that may be working in their favor.
Eurasian beavers have been brought back from the brink of extinction, but bad memories seem to keep them in the dark.
London's Westminster Abbey is not only a grand and glorious place of worship, but also the final resting place of hundreds of history's most famous figures.
A recent study offers cat lovers some new ammunition in the "cat vs. dog" superiority debate.
I used to believe that Charles Darwin, Father of Evolution, loved all animals equally. It turns out, he did not.
What’s so fishy about human anatomy? A lot! Just look at these gifts from our aquatic ancestors.
One hundred and seventy-five years ago, Charles Darwin set out with a survey voyage, aboard the HMS Beagle, in what would be a groundbreaking expedition for his own theories, and the way the world would come to see the origin of species. Darwin brought th
There’s only one thing in this world shaped like an egg. Not exactly spherical, not exactly an oval, it’s kind of hard to describe what an egg looks like. “Asymmetric tapered oval”? Sure, why not.
Talk about "singing for your supper": New research shows that fairy-wren chicks have to sing a specific song to their mother or she will refuse to feed them.
People have speculated over the nature of seemingly useless physical characteristics in living things for thousands of years.
Large animals tend to live longer than smaller ones. But this isn't the case for most breeds of dog. What gives?
The first Ice Age movie hit theaters in 2002—and with it came the cinematic debut of “Scrat," an accident-prone saber-toothed squirrel with an insatiable lust for acorns (as of this writing, the manic critter’s Facebook page has netted more than 12,000 “l
There are plenty of intrepid scientists doing strange-sounding field work. Here are two.