The Atacama Desert, known as the driest place on Earth, has revealed a surprising secret: a hardy creature. New research ...

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.

The Earth brims with extraordinary creatures, but none captivate the imagination quite like its largest animals. Dominating the oceans, the blue whale reigns supreme as the biggest creature ever to ...

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

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

Sharks have been evolving in Earth’s oceans for more than 450 million years, long before dinosaurs ever walked the planet. Throughout that vast history, they diversified into some of the strangest and ...

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 ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

It is possible that extremophile microbes lcould exist on icy moons and planets with conditions similar to subglacial waters or the ocean floor.