This creature blurs the line between viruses and cells, exhibiting remarkable characteristics that push the boundaries of ...

Starring Ed O'Neil and Jeffrey Pierce in the main roles as Mooney and Trout, and Michael Madsen's Terry Maddock in a ...

Forty years ago an amateur Scottish paleontologist named Stan Wood made a fascinating discovery, uncovering Westlothiana ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

An elusive eel species was documented anew in northeastern India, according to McClatchy News. Renamed as Ophichthys hodgarti, the animal, while not unknown to locals, hadn't been identified by ...

In the vast tapestry of life on Earth, oxygen is generally considered essential for survival. Most organisms, from the smallest insects to the largest mammals, require oxygen to generate energy ...

However, doing so poorly, the creature is noticed by the two scientists, and its sudden appearance frightens them. The creature panics in turn, and in a moment of anxious anger, kills both Tomas and ...

A translucent Sericosura sea spider. Image via Shana Goffredi “I came up out of the submersible all dejected because I thought we didn’t collect any,” Goffredi told SFGate. “And it turned out we’d ...

The anemone is part of a new species, genus and family, according to the study. Photo by Yanghong Yu via Unsplash A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan ...

Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – also known as the Portuguese man o’ war – has now been revealed to be a ...

But it is neither a dog nor a raccoon. While there are other raccoon dog species in Asia, the Japanese raccoon dog is its own unique branch of the family tree. Japanese raccoon dogs have 38 ...

Off the east coast of China, researchers discovered an unusual spiky creature feeding on a jellyfish-like species called a hydroid. In recent years, similar specimens were recorded in that region ...