Cuttlefish flash patterns and colors on their skin to communicate, and they may wave their tentacles to send visual and ...

The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

In a Queensland river where natural gas seeps up through the water, many living creatures have come to depend on it for their ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New ...

“Across longer timespans, parthenogenesis also has more complex implications for the stability of populations, but given the ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...

An epic self-guided itinerary in Bali for kids that can be tailored to 1,2 or 3-week Bali itinerary options in Canggu, Ubud, ...

We come across predatory starfish, Marthasterias, which Charles describes as "the most bizarre group of animals". Starfish, or sea stars, have hundreds of tube feet that all operate hydraulically ...

Democratic members of Pennsylvania's state House came to the University of Pittsburgh Tuesday to talk with researchers whose ...