A snorkeler in Australia found a shell tagged with a strangely specific number, kickstarting an online mystery about its ...

Discover what’s inside a turtle shell, living bone fused to spine and ribs, packed with organs, muscles, and nerves that ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

By KAREN MADORINMany either know Kansas as a flyover state or viewed through car windows while driving across the flattest, ...

The black abalone mollusk (Haliotis cracherodii) is a delicacy in many regions of the world, with fancy restaurant diners ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes. The idea lingers. Snakes do not write or throw balls. They slide and ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

A deep-sea catshark (Scyliorhinus haeckelii) documented at 198 meters on the outer edge of the continental shelf, near the ...

Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

The slender relatives of hawks and eagles have had a bad-news, good-news, bad-news existence since 1967, when the bird landed ...

China’s rocket launches that passed over Palawan may seem harmless, but debris from separating rocket parts could pose serious consequences to marine life in one of the Philippines’ richest waters. On ...