A mysterious fossilized creature discovered more than a century ago has finally been decoded, offering stunning insights into ...

A new "Trail Guide" to the abundance of Long Island seafood is admirable but few species make it onto menus even on Long ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

The marine flatworm is one of the ocean's most bizarre creatures. Its movements and physiology are unlike any other marine organism.

Beachcombers along the Texas coast have been finding a spectacular variety of Sea Beans this week, thanks to strong onshore ...

For 54 years, through raucous parties and life’s twists and turns, the author has rocked on with his band.

Who are the Harold Miners of the animal kingdom? What are the highest-jumping animals in the world? According to researchers, copepods — a microscopic set of crustaceans — are probably the best ...

The noise came from a rig shark, a fairly small shark common in the waters around New Zealand that grows to up to five feet and mainly eats crustaceans. It is eaten by bigger shark species — and ...

You carry your phone on you all the time. Including your list of groceries on it makes sense rather than carrying around a second thing. Luckily, there is a boatload of options in this space.

Anglers set their fishing lines off the coast of El Salvador and waited. When they eventually hauled in their catch, they realized they’d snagged a “rare” 3-foot-wide sea creature. It turned out to be ...

according to a study published March 13 in the peer-reviewed journal Check List. Researchers quickly identified the fish as roughskin eagle rays and the country’s first record of the species ...