Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

The Antarctic sponge may be the oldest animal on Earth, living up to 15,000 years. In the icy waters of Antarctica, ...

Recent research led by the University of Bristol has made waves by pushing back the timeline of Earth’s earliest life form by ...

Proud parents Mommy and Abrazzo are both nearly 100 years old, but they’re contributing to Galápagos tortoise conservation at ...

THE world’s oldest cat has just celebrated her 30th birthday, as her owner shares the bizarre secret to her long life. Leslie Greenhough, 70, believes his tortoiseshell moggy, Millie, who ...

Edina Delic, from Dublin, spoke with Metro about the conditions in China's oldest public zoo in the Xicheng District, that ...

Jellyfish are among the oldest animals on Earth, found in all the world's oceans and serve as valuable model systems for biological research. Microbiologists at Kiel University (CAU) have now ...

From oldest to youngest ... An estimated 90 percent of all animal species on the Earth were wiped out. Many groups of insects and mammal-like reptiles disappeared. The trilobites (a type of ...

Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo — both of which are estimated to be around 100 years old — just become first-time parents.

BERLIN (AP) — Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her 68th birthday in style. The Berlin zoo on Friday presented Fatou with a basket of fruit and ...