Animal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with microbial life likely emerging between 4.3 and 3.7 billion years ago. It was not ...

Here in the United States, the deadly risks posed by wildlife can pale in comparison to developing nations around the world ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

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

Our planet is brimming with life, and the diversity of animal species on Earth is staggering. Over 2.1 million animal species have been described, but zoologists estimate that millions more have yet ...

A model of Laika inside a replica of Sputnik 2 at the Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics in Moscow. | Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the ...

Globally, human animals have trespassed into the homes of countless nonhuman animals (animals), and our planet—land, water, and air—has become severely fractured by these reckless intrusions. As a ...