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

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates with teeth adapted for eating plants.

While they may sound like pests, black soldier fly larvae could hold the key to reclaiming extreme environments.

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

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 ...

Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with backbones to join them. But for tens ...

The findings suggest these ghost elephants survived Angola’s war by never leaving—adapting instead by becoming invisible. “I ...

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

Studying how much soil herbivores eat shows which species are vulnerable to toxic element exposure from natural or human ...

Jodi Rowley is the Lead Scientist of the Australian Museum's citizen science project, FrogID. She has received funding from state, federal and philanthropic agencies. Grace Gillard does not work for, ...