The earliest forms of animal life on our planet continue to fascinate scientists, who are seeking to unravel the mystery of ...

A microorganism whose evolutionary roots can be traced to the era of the first multicellular animals may provide a glimpse of how single-celled organisms made a critical evolutionary leap. In ...

Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.

For 150 million years, gars—a group commonly derided as “trash fish”—have mostly stayed the same, a rare consistency not even seen in sharks, a new study says. A longnose gar swims through Florida's ...

A diminutive 225 million-year-old reptile unearthed in Brazil gave rise to the biggest creatures that ever flew, according to new research. The lizard-like species measured just 15 inches from nose to ...

It is 1976 in Mrs.Prickett’s first grade class at the long-closed Williams Junior High School (located near Pleasant Valley High School in Calhoun County). During nap time, she reads stories about ...