Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...
A new fossil discovery in Canada is rewriting part of the story of how animal life began. The remains of creatures that lived ...
Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ...
A hat-wearing sponge crab is among nearly 150 new animal species discovered in the idyllic waters of the Indian Ocean. The previously unknown creatures were found across 22 undersea mountains ...
Scientists have discovered at least 11 new species in Cambodia’s karst ecosystems — dramatic landscapes of caves and rocks that create isolated habitats. These new species, as well as other endangered ...
It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...
Palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered the remains of a huge new fossil species belonging to an extinct animal group in half-a-billion-year-old Cambrian rocks from Kootenay ...