A long-term deep-sea experiment revealed that a crucial species failed to appear where it should have thrived. In many horror films, the most unsettling moments come from creatures that can't always ...

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on ...

A study shows that bumblebees can be trained to tell the difference between long and short light flashes. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered, for the first time, that an ...

Mármol and his colleagues extracted RNA sequences from the muscles and skin of 10 permafrozen woolly mammoth specimens found ...

This trap mission takes a wild turn when a burst of unexpected color flashes inside the net. The hidden tunnel we explored ends up holding a species none of us can recognize. Every angle of the fish ...

Researchers from around the world have made a very cool toad-related discovery. They identified three previously unknown ...

Spider may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many, but the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not as icky as one might ...

The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...