Life on Earth started in the oceans. Beginning around 390 million years ago, however, the ancestors of modern land animals rose out of the waters, trading their fins for limbs and gills for lungs.

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All animals, big and small, are skilled navigators. They effortlessly traverse diverse terrains, from dense forests to open deserts. Researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have ...

An international research team has developed an innovative model that explains how elongated amphibious animals—such as ...

The "Morphobot" will be able to transform to get into inaccessible environments. A real-life transforming robot designed to mimic the movement of animals that roam Planet Earth will eventually change ...

He walks, he talks, he runs and he plays. He's “Waldog,” an AI-powered robot that is making the rounds in the northern city ...

A group of students from Princeton, New Jersey, is hoping to win the Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition with an animal robot. The robot is programmed to speak Mam, an indigenous language in Guatemala ...

A visualization of Tiktaalik roseae, an extinct aquatic animal with fossils that shed light on the evolution of land animals from marine animals millions of years ago. Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia ...