Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

A deep-water fishing trip turns into a brutal battle when giant sharks and monster fish start taking the bait beside the boat ...

Footage shows paper nautilus moving its tentacles from inside its shell and gazing through one of its eyes.

Sea squirts in the Antarctic could offer us a novel way to kill melanoma cells – that is, skin cancer – without harming ...

Not to be confused with Iriya near Ueno, this Iriya is in Adachi – and it has a strange, bone-coloured squid-like playground structure that looks like a fossil, ...

Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...

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Kris Kneen’s Rite of Spring is a pulsing story that moves energetically across its terrain, delivering a sense of alien ...

Researchers have wondered whether Praearcturus gigas was a giant crustacean called an isopod or some other creature. A new analysis of museum specimens suggests that it was a scorpion that stretched m ...

Nature's most striking animals share a surprisingly common fashion statement, and their polka dots do far more than just look ...

Lionfish, mitten crabs and “sea vomit.” Meet eight marine species inadvertently brought to new territory that are taking the ...