Researchers have added something new to the platypus's list of bizarre traits: melanosomes in its fur thought to only exist ...

Under a microscope, Tardigrade—often called water bears—look like something from another world. These microscopic organisms are famous for surviving extreme conditions, from freezing temperatures to ...

If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you might at first think it contains lifeless water. But examine that water under a microscope and you will see your bucket contains a universe of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animals have body parts that range from enormous organs to microscopic structures, showing how evolution shapes anatomy for ...

Educator and amateur scientist Charles Thomas Hudson's obsession with microscopic creatures is literally illuminated in his ...

If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

Tardigrades, a type of microscopic animal, in can reveal information about how life interacts with simulated Martian mineral deposits. The three images on top are active tardigrades in a typical Earth ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before. The discovery of a tiny roundworm, formally described as a new species, is ...

A tardigrade belonging to the genus Echiniscus, photographed by scanning electron microscope. Differences between one or two physiological traits were long thought sufficient to distinguish between ...

The animal kingdom stretches anatomy far beyond human expectations. Some creatures carry organs that rival furniture in size, while others rely on structures so tiny they can only be seen through a ...