It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

People have lived in Big Sky Country for a little more than 10,000 years. But living things creeped and crawled and swam ...

Cwm Nash is also quieter than other Welsh beaches. There's no car park at the beach, and it's only accessible by parking in a ...

Researchers sequenced the genome of a sea spider, revealing it lacks whole-genome duplication seen in related arachnids. This ...

Could so-called blue carbon be key to resolving some of Australia’s biggest environmental and cultural challenges?

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Discusses arthropods, a diverse group of animals characterized by jointed legs, exoskeletons, and segmented bodies. It ...

Diver Masumi Palhof, technician with the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District, with a signal crayfish she nabbed in ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A Ph.D. student recently found the counterpart of the original fossil at the ...

Rock formations called “hoodoos” fill the Bisti De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northern New Mexico. The desert area is rich with fossils from dinosaurs and animals that lived here in ancient times ...

May 29, 2025 — The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition ...