In the world of phylogenetics, there's team sponge and team comb jelly. Which creature roots the animal tree of life—the simple sponge or the more complex comb jelly—has stirred fierce debate among ...

Scientists believe they may have identified the first animal to have roamed the Earth about 700 million years ago, a new study published in Nature revealed. Researchers determined that the first ...

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A 580-million-year-old fossil suggests that evolution of bilateral symmetry may be simpler than previously thought, Nature reports. The fossil, an eight-armed swirl named Eoandromeda after the galaxy ...

Comb jellies are these beautiful, otherworldly creatures that sparkle gently in the sea. And now, if a study in the journal Science and another one in the journal Nature hold up, they may not be so ...

WildWorks’ Animal Jam wasn’t all that impressive when it launched on the PC in 2010. It had just six two-dimensional animals, but kids liked it because they loved role-playing as their favorite ...

SAN PABLO, Calif. (KGO) -- A San Pablo no-kill animal rescue says their landlord Caltrans told them they must bid at auction to keep renting their property or sign a long-term lease they likely won't ...

What’s cuter than a baby animal? A baby animal listening to country music, of course. Jelly Roll got to meet some animals while overseas in Australia, and even got the honor of naming a brand-new baby ...