An expedition in the Southern Ocean captured video of a rare species of deep-sea cephalopod. Until now, it had been found only in fishing nets and in the bellies of seabirds.

This fossil site near a surprising city gives researchers and amateurs alike a window into a prehistoric world that's 309 million years old.

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Functional classification of animals is necessary to enhance the predictive power of food web models. However, while there is a large database for functional classification of benthic invertebrates ...

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

"We are particularly concerned about invertebrate animals in the ocean, which absorbs most of the heat from climate change," Ripple said. "Those animals are increasingly vulnerable because of ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

This discovery challenges our knowledge about the early evolution of animals. Shishania specimens. A and B, specimen under different lighting, showing how uneven breakage reveals distinct surfaces.

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

A wild ride through animal classification. What determines an animal's species? Why do the same kinds of animals sometimes look different from each other? What makes a subspecies? All in all ...

The red fox is such a fixture of life in London that it has its own ambulance service, the Fox Project. The organization that began as an information service to ...

Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.