Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Today's octopuses are intelligent, remarkably flexible animals that lurk in reefs, hide in crevices, or drift through the ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived ...

Deep within the dense foliage of Papua New Guinea lives the world’s smallest vertebrate. Meet Paedophryne amauensis, a ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

Hummingbirds and their Asian and African counterparts, sunbirds, feed by sticking their tongues and beak tips into pools of ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

The field of gut microbiota research has undergone rapid expansion, uncovering the intricate relationship between microbial communities in the vertebrate ...