Researchers have discovered a new species in the Great Salt Lake, offering scientists a new tool for monitoring environmental ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

For most mammals, growing up means giving up their mother’s milk. Then there are the sea lions of the Galápagos Islands.

A diver in Monterey Bay recently had a close encounter with a deep-sea fish normally found at depths of 3,000 feet, NOAA ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Along long stretches of the Texas shoreline, thousands of rare sea creatures have been turning up dead or dying, transforming ...

Some animals do not have red blood like humans. From spiders to octopuses, their copper-rich blue blood helps them survive ...

This article originally published at 'Mass die off': Thousands of rare sea creatures wash up on Texas coast.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-old mystery with the first-ever live encounter of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

A woman taking a stroll along a quiet beach in deep South Texas came across a strange creature stuck “in a pile of sand” and ...