The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

Some strange creatures like Sea Scorpions and Plesiosaurs inhibited our oceans for over half a billion years. Let’s take a ...

Geological evidence reveals that corals already existed in the Devonian period, over 385 million years ago, for example in the Eifel and Sauerland regions in Germany. Fossilized corals of the extinct ...

Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...

Comb jellies, or ctenophores, are transparent creatures that are not closely related to jellyfish, despite their name. But they, too, have a fantastic skill—researchers recently discovered that ...

The symbiotic relationship between corals and their photosynthetic algal partners (photosymbionts) goes back at least to the Devonian (385 million years ago), a Nature paper suggests. This is ...

Alcohol — and animals that love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a study has found. Because ethanol — the kind of alcohol that forms ...

Illustration by Brian Engh/LivingRelicProductions.com, courtesy of Utah Field House of Natural History In the period when the creature lived, a vast inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

However, the Pokemon franchise certainly took that concept to the next level by having the player catch and train the creatures they encounter along their journey. Updated October 22, 2024 ...