Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Discover how pill bugs breathe with gill-like lungs, why they love damp places, and what happens when they dry out.

Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, a newly described species that was one of the largest, most feared land animals of its time – at least, if you were a fern. Hailing from 307 million years ago, this strange ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

Farmer Chris Golding says he has had to move some animals to higher ground during wet weather.

Tucked away near the Kenyan border, the mysterious Lake Natron in Tanzania intrigues researchers across the globe ...

Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants.

Some animal facts sound like internet exaggerations until you look at the research behind them. Biologists and field researchers have confirmed many of these traits through long-term observation, ...

Large mobs of camels are wreaking havoc in remote Indigenous communities as they desperately search for water.