To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The ...

Sea robins are weird animals who use leg-like appendages to walk on the seafloor. Now, scientists know why they evolved those ...

But with the discovery of an intact head, "the mystery of Anthropleura now appears solved." Related: 7-foot-long arthropods ...

Finally, the third new species is Pseudionella pumulaensis. This is a parasitic isopod – a tiny crustacean.

While the new fossils are not from fully grown Arthropleura, some of which reached 2.6 metres long, they reveal important ...

The animals were fed small crustaceans that were filled with fluorescent material, researchers said, and they were able to ...

T wo American teams have just revealed the details and physiological and molecular origins of one of nature's incongruities: ...

Despite their reputation as loners, it turns out octopuses will happily hunt in groups with other species — as long as ...

Drone footage of gray whales off the Oregon coast has revealed new details about how the marine mammals find food. The ...

Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have ...

What, do you suppose, is the closest living relative of the hippopotamus? The rhinoceros, perhaps? The pig? In fact, it’s the ...

In her book Edible Insects and Human Evolution, anthropologist Julie Lesnik argued that colonialism deepened ... But as transport networks made travel easier and food storage improved, more and more ...