A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

This year marks the 33rd year of the Folly Beach Sea and Sand Festival on Feb. 22-23, a weekend filled with music, food, ...

Animal shelters and zoos around the country are encouraging little cathartic avenues for revenge this holiday — and raising money for a cause — with a slew of darkly funny fundraisers for those whose ...

The fox was spotted several times overnight by searchers but remains on the loose, the zoo said. Bat-eared foxes are not dangerous to humans. “Their diet consists of insects, an ...

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

A Costco chocolate cake left on a deck is fair game to a Gretna neighborhood opossum, who is recovering at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.

New Bedford Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, is hosting a “Nautical Myths, Legends & Sea Creatures” program for school ...

SEE IT: Exquisite Creatures Revealed at OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000, omsi.edu. 9:30 am–5:30 pm Tuesday–Sunday, ...

Scientists say the crustaceans have developed a visual system based on proteins that help them detect the little light that ...

Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...