If forced to choose one descriptor for the octopus, the best word may be “otherworldly.” These truly amazing marine animals ...

is crimson creature glides through the twilight zone with rainbows dancing up and down its body but to predators it’s ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

This creature doesn’t think the way we do—because it doesn’t have just one brain. With 9 brains and 3 hearts, it can process information across its entire body, even controlling each arm independently ...

The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These species have evolved appearances that seem more like science fiction than ...

A recent study has found video evidence that octopuses are hitting fish in the ocean for some unknown reason, displaying ...

The world's 'oldest' octopus fossil is not an octopus, people are speaking fewer words per day, humans evolved to heal ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

Zackary A. Graham’s “Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad" is an overview of those humble but mighty crustaceans that, though ...

Hello Games has another content update for No Man's Sky fans, and this one is adding a brand-new gameplay feature involving ...