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Since the discovery of a 375-million-year-old fossilized fish, Tiktaalik, that could drag itself onto land using its front limbs, paleontologists have suspected that the earliest terrestrial four-legged animals were amphibians. …

Snickers. Photo: Crystal Abbe Graham/AFP We had summer storms in Waynesboro on Monday, and only one of our six office dogs – Snickers, a shih tzu – is ever bothered …

Without the tadpole phase and metamorphosis, though, the transition from water to land was probably way tougher than we thought. Amphibian innovation “We have lots of assumptions in our field …

One of the things we first learn about the animal kingdom is the difference between warm and cold-blooded animals. While reptiles bask in the sun to get warm, mammals must …

Paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History have described the fossilized remains of baby embolomeres, crocodile-like predators that prowled ancient rivers and swamps between 350 and 280 million years …

Boa constrictors have been found on a golf course after a suspected illegal dumping. Golfers found two of the South American snakes hiding in the same patch of long grass …

It’s peak hayfever season, and humans in your household aren’t the only ones struggling with allergies; dogs and cats can experience contact allergies, too. In fact, an allergic reaction is …

Photo of the short-eared dog caught on a camera trap from Bolivia. Credit: G. Ayala & M.E Viscarra Camera traps are revealing that the Amazon’s “ghost dog” is less rare …

Bright green, brown, dark, speckled or almost disguised as a shrub, the chameleon — the king of camouflage — is expanding its territory across the Iberian Peninsula, which is home …