One that caught attention from many was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island in late May.

The cave is low and dark, and it is dug into limestone on a little island in the Baltic Sea where the wind blows salt from ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for ...

Across the globe, stunned locals have captured footage of animals born with extra heads, legs, eyes, and even tentacle-like ...

The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine test at the Chernobyl ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam.

Fossils of animal bones found in a cave contained dirt and sediment in their empty tooth sockets. A scientist realized that ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since the disaster - including 'evolving' dogs and cancer-resistant wolves ...

At a shrimp pond in Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong, researchers have found a new species of Tripedalia jellyfish. The animal is only about half an inch long, which makes it hard to spot in murky ...