They will also have "good flinches" if you bonk them with a hammer.

Around 400 million years ago, during a geological era often celebrated by paleontologists as the "Age of Fishes," the global ...

The discovery bemused residents of a small town in northeastern Australia. The objects appear to be junk from a space launch, ...

Moms are capable of magic that is more than just maternal. Nature has imbued its most special being with surprisingly strange ...

A two-week expedition off Brazil's coast uncovered 31 previously unknown marine species, highlighting just how little is ...

An international team of researchers has discovered 31 new species of marine organisms off the coast of Brazil. Among the ...

But exploring the evolutionary roots of these diverse maternal methods is tough, because reproductive tissues decay quickly ...

Huge numbers of blackchin tilapia, a fish native to west Africa, are wreaking havoc among Thailand’s river ecosystems. Experts – and some chefs – are seeking sustainable solutions ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

On July 3, 1996, Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic Independence Day paid off months of hype to become an instant box-office smash. It was not just the highest-grossing film of the year, but one of the ...

A hardy aquarium fish prized for its golden hue, the ornamental Flowerhorn cichlid (Amphilophus spp.) has become a problem for the residents of San Pablo City, Laguna: It is increasingly taking on an ...

Turns out, you just need to catch a boat from Ventura and head about an hour offshore to Channel Islands National Park, where nature has been running its own private laboratory for thousands of years.