Scientists off the coast of Venezuela discovered a new species of fish that looks just like Donald Trump, and people have ...

“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

Anybody who has seen "Finding Nemo" knows about those captivating monsters of the sea: anglerfishes. Variously horrific or alien-looking, many female anglerfishes sport long, protruding lures used for ...

The picturesque shores of the Gulf Coast have more than just visiting tourists lounging out on the beach this Spring. From ...

Over summer, several big jellyfish blooms were sighted in southern Australian waters. What might be behind these swarms?

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

I teach a class at Bard College and Columbia University called “Imagining Nonhuman Consciousness.” We mostly read about ...

This bizarre-looking fish may seem otherworldly, but every part of its design solves a real problem: how to see, hunt and ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

The vast majority of our planet remains a complete mystery, hidden beneath miles of crushing water where sunlight never penetrates. In this eternal darkness, evolution has taken a path so bizarre that ...