For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

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Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

A fresh analysis of a fossil found almost 50 years ago reveals a newly described genus named for its "manipulating claw" ...

We like to think that the universe follows a strict set of logical rules, but every now and then, we stumble upon facts that ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

The state pest reporting platform 643Pest received a few hundred reports annually until 2023, when the floodgates opened for ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.