Explore the most fascinating animal stories of 2024, from new species discoveries to remarkable behaviors in animals.

Trees are essential habitats for diverse animals, like monkeys and sloths, showcasing unique adaptations and revealing complex relationships between species and their environments.

Dr. Antonio Ballell Mayoral, a researcher at Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences and co-author of the study, explained, “Jaw shape evolves particularly fast in ecologically specialised groups, such as ...

Scientists have discovered a potential new member of the human family tree. This mysterious species, named Homo juluensis, includes the enigmatic Denisovans — our ancient human relatives whose stories ...

Per the usually conservative — staid even — Anchorage Daily Times, a nearly 20-foot-long, three-ton “lizard-like monster ... to be a tyrannosaurus species of dinosaur.” ...

The innovation is the result of research titled "Arboreal Bridges for Sustainable Human-Primates Coexistence within Ecologies Adaptation at Martabe Gold Mine," presented at the 9th Asian Primates ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...

The footprints were left in the mud by two different species "within a matter of hours, or at most days," said paleontologist Louise Leakey, co-author of the research published Thursday in the ...

(Louise Leakey via AP) Scientists study fossil footprints for clues about co-existing species of early human ancestors at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, in ...

Scientists have now discovered at a location called Koobi Fora, providing the first evidence that two species - Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus - shared the same landscape. A fossil footprint ...

For now it’s impossible to know exactly how the two species interacted. New clues about their behavior could be revealed with future excavations of more trackway surfaces. But it is fascinating ...