New research has uncovered a crucial clue to understanding the spread of "barrens" in the Great Southern Reef, which are ...

The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect that had been considered extinct ...

Strandings of these jellyfish-like animals, sometimes called "by-the-wind sailors," usually mean spring is coming ...

As night fell across northern Brazil, fishermen peered into the “tea-colored” river water searching for an “armored” creature with a “powerful toxin.” Eventually they spotted and caught it, carefully ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. “Finding a sunfish in its natural habitat is a privilege ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

Two tiny sea creatures with translucent bodies found on the California coast are both new species. They’re sea slugs, part of ...

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

Blue, jellyfish-like creatures called Velella velella have been washing up along California’s coast recently, captivating Bay ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...