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

A team of marine scientists from CSIRO and Ocean Census has found over 110 new species in and around the Coral Sea Marine ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and ...

Quick Take The Weddell seal produces multiple distinct calls and ultrasonic frequencies, reaching 50 kHz, a level humans ...

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The world's oldest octopus fossil is no longer an octopus. A new study by researchers says the 300-million-year-old creature ...

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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 ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...