First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

Researchers have identified how thyroxine, a human thyroid hormone, can positively influence the life-critical calcification in soft corals, and have developed a unique technique for injecting ...

Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.

A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...

From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...

WESTMINSTER — Butterfly Pavilion is holding "Insectival: 30th Anniversary Bug Bash," a weekend-long festival honoring invertebrates, animals without backbones, from butterflies and bees to ...

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