Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant eating reptiles now called Tanyka consisted of ...

The remains of a "weird" creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant-eater Tanyka was a “living fossil” when it stalked ...

Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container — one that could help ...

A routine genetic test in South Korea uncovered Acanthochitona feroxa, a chiton species misidentified for years.

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had teeth specialized for eating plants, making it one of the oldest species to ...

Tyrannoroter heberti is a 307-million-year-old land vertebrate that may have been one of the earliest animals to consume ...

The blue whale is the largest animal to ever exist — bigger than any dinosaur that walked the Earth. Its heart is the size of ...

During the age of dinosaurs, most lizards struggled to compete with the giants that dominated land and sky. But one lineage took a different path, abandoning the shore and adapting fully to life in ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Here's a thought experiment that keeps planetary scientists awake at night. Strip every living thing from our planet, every bacterium, every blade of grass, every creature that has ever drawn breath ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...