With an estimated 8.75 million living species on earth, there are always going to be some weird and unusual animals you've ...

The brand-new species was given the name Tripedalia maipoensis as a tribute to where scientists originally found the marine ...

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Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young April 17, 2025 8:00 a.m. Most of what ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...