Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex ...

New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

The sewer systems of Florida are teeming with an “abundance” of alligators, racoons, and a dozen other animals using the ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

Big cats, birds, primates and pangolins were among the nearly 20,000 threatened or protected animals rescued in a recent ...

Northland's largest wetland has suffered significant damage to an area the size of 54 rugby fields after a landowner allowed ...