Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

Prehistoric animals once roamed — and ruled — planet Earth. Some of them, like the giant sloth or the woolly rhino, were generally gentle. Others, like the saber-toothed tiger and the dire ...

Animal architects include some of the smallest creatures on Earth, such as ants, termites and aquatic insect ... We showed ...

Dickinsonia has now been confirmed as the planet’s oldest known animal, with Russian cliffside fossils containing preserved fat molecules.

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an amputated leg to escape. Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

During the most critical month of the year, May, the Planet Earth Live team followed the lives of individual young animals growing up in the wild. They captured the incredible real life stories ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganizing soils ...

During the most critical month of the year, May, the Planet Earth Live team followed the lives of individual young animals growing up in the wild. They captured the incredible real life stories ...