To many people, particularly gardeners, moles are little more than pests. Their conical mounds can easily become a blight on your backyard, leading many people to seek solutions to get rid of them. In ...

A toxic algal bloom, caused by a species known as Karenia mikimotoi, has been destroying marine life in South Australian ...

Africa's tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally ...

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

The octopus is one of the most intelligent and mysterious creatures in the animal kingdom capable of problem-solving, camouflage, and even escaping enclosures. Dive into the fascinating world of this ...

Cone snails are marine animals with a powerful venomous sting. When cone snails feel threatened or disturbed, they can inject venom into their prey (or humans.) This venom consists of various ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.

The Worm That Outsourced Locomotion to Its (Many) Butts Ramisyllis multicaudata challenges the very idea of a body.

But in the wild, some animals have figured out a third, much stranger option: drop part of their own body to survive. It’s called autotomy, and while it sounds extreme, for these animals, it’s just ...

Pieuvre. Image via Unsplash Tool use has long been considered a hallmark of advanced intelligence, and octopuses are among the few invertebrates known to use tools. Observations in the wild have ...

An invertebrate is an animal that doesn't have a backbone. Many invertebrates, like insects and spiders, have a hard outer casing called an exoskeleton, which protects their body a bit like a suit ...

Scientific Support for Animal Consciousness The publication comes nearly a year after the “ New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness,” which demonstrated the scientific backing for consciousness ...