Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

Some animals living on Earth appear so unusual that they are often compared to aliens. Their shapes, movements, and behaviors challenge common ideas of what life should look like. Scientists explain ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

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After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

GUAM — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It's like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.

Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

When you think of birds, you might imagine wings flapping silently against a blue sky. The kākāpō, however, lacks these ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

(CNN) — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.