Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

If you’ve ever wondered what the oldest animal on Earth is, or other old creatures living on Earth, continue reading below.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

The longest living animals can survive for ... a Seychelles giant tortoise thought to be the oldest reptile living on Earth. ... The oldest living land animal is a 190-year-old Seychelles ...

Simple animal life may have existed in Earth’s oceans 890 million years ago, according to new research. New fossils belonging to ancient sponges may be the earliest known belonging to an animal ...

What's more, plate tectonics slowly and continuously churns the surface of the planet, thereby erasing old impressions, ... there have been approximately 4.5 x 10^27 animals ever on Earth.

Scientists recently found one billion-year-old fungi in Canada, changing the way we view evolution and the timing of plants and animals here on Earth. The fossilized specimen was collected in ...

The animal, native to the cold, deep waters of the North Atlantic, can live to at least 272 years—and possibly to the ripe old age of 500. (Related: " Meet the Animal That Lives for 11,000 Years .") ...

Earth's first animals had particular taste in real estate. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 05 / 230509122052.htm ...

Today, Earth is home to animals of all shapes and sizes, from nearly microscopic creatures like tardigrades to 80-foot-long (25 meters) blue whales. These organisms have arisen and evolved over ...

“Our findings suggest that the animals of the Ediacara biota, which lived on Earth prior to the ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of modern animal life, were a mixed bag of outright weirdos, such as ...

Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows — for the first time — that some of Earth’s earliest animals managed to be picky about where they lived.