Fossil fragments found in the U.K. have been identified as remains of the largest scorpions ever. Measuring more than a meter ...

In Thailand, squid is commonly referred to as a “fish” in everyday language, a habit many people grow up with without ever ...

This brainless animal uses a molecular trick once tied to bilaterian body plans.

Animals are known by different names across regions and languages, but scientific names provide a universal system of ...

Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their ...

Mucus, feces, skin and other shed tissue allowed researchers to investigate which creatures have been swimming in two deep-sea canyons without having to observe or catch them ...

After investigating thousands of wrist bones, scientists suspect the last common ancestor species of humans and chimpanzees ...

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—it also turns poisonous sulfur into armor ...

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Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time. Gradually, these communities replace one another until a “climax community”—like a mature ...