Pollution Time Machine: It’s not just living animals that carry remnants of humanity’s toxic footprint. Samples of bird ...

This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an ...

The transition of life from the oceans to land is one of the most remarkable events in the history of evolution. Around 450 million years ago, life on Earth made a dramatic leap from the water to the ...

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian ...

The cold and steep mountain is home to a few select animals and birds that find solace in the rigorous mountainside land. Though living ... the species on this list live below 15,000 feet of ...

This article lists the animals that can live for thousands of years—and why ... Jonathan, the world’s oldest known land animal, is a 192-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise living on the ...

The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability to live exclusively on land much faster than previously assumed.

The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability to live exclusively on land much faster than previously assumed. “We ...