An environmental group calling for control of parchment worm in the Marlborough Sounds has criticised the Marlborough ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

A newly discovered species in Utah’s Great Salt Lake may reveal secrets of ancient oceans and modern climate change.

An unassuming rock layer in the Grand Canyon just exposed a fossil secret that changes everything we thought we knew.

Bone-eating zombie worms vanished from Pacific canyons during a 10-year study, raising concerns that oxygen loss is altering ...

There are repeat candidates, such as the endangered Canterbury knobbled weevil ( Hadramphus tuberculatus ), as well as new ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

They’re like living feather dusters whose mouths can see you coming. The simplest animal eyes consist of light-sensitive ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.