Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and a carnivorous “death ...

A newly identified box jellyfish species in Singapore is giving scientists new insight into marine biodiversity while also ...

Some extinct human ancestors and modern-day apes appear to share wrist traits that raise the question of whether our last ...

Texas firm Colossal Biosciences, which has dedicated itself to resurrecting lost species, including the dire wolf and woolly ...

Marine scientists have discovered a record number of new species living in the depths of the world’s oceans over the past ...

An oddity among exoplanets, L 98-59 d is (so far) in a class all its own, but astronomers expect powerful new telescopes will ...

A team of taxonomists has formally described 24 species of crustaceans never before known to science, all pulled from the ...

Species diversity is a multidimensional ecological concept describing the variability of species within a community, typically quantified through measures that integrate both species richness (the ...

Fraud may affect as much as 20 percent of the world’s seafood trade, according to a new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The report, “Food fraud in the ...

University of Missouri researchers have shown how an all-female fish species called the Amazon molly defies the long-held belief that asexual reproduction is an evolutionary dead end. The key is gene ...

If China finally eclipses the United States as the world’s preeminent scientific superpower, there won’t be an official announcement. Neither will there necessarily be a dramatic Promethean ...