Groups of animals consider multiple factors before deciding whether to fight rivals, researchers say. Groups of animals consider multiple factors before deciding whether to fight rivals, researchers ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

A newly identified sponge group called Vilesida is giving scientists a clearer view of animal origins, linking sponges with ...

All animals are related to each other, but comb jellies — a marine invertebrate found in oceans around the world — are the most distantly related to all other animals, shows a new study in Nature.

Surprisingly, genome comparisons have failed to resolve a major question in animal evolution: Which living animals are the descendants of the earliest animals to evolve in the world's oceans?

Animals should have voting rights, a legal researcher has suggested. A paper published in the journal Analysis by Ioan-Radu Motoarcă, an associate at Ashman Law Offices in Illinois, reported that ...

Carew is the author of BEASTLY: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us History is all too human—busy with battles, emperors, and land grabs. Yet, it is our relationship with animals that has changed ...

Nov. 10 (UPI) --Before animals drop their gloves and square off, they assess the situation. Previous research suggests individuals conduct a kind of crude cost-benefit analysis, taking account of an ...