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 ...

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 ...

The couple recently introduced "mini cows" S'more, Brownie and Crunch, and a donkey named Griz Bunnie XO/Instagram; ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo's family just got a little bigger!

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 ...