Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition ...

This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to land, researchers say.

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Twenty-five Kemp's ridley sea turtles, considered the rarest among sea turtles, arrived in the Keys Tuesday after being ...

Moonstone Beach stands as Cambria’s most famous natural attraction, though calling it merely a “beach” doesn’t quite capture its essence. Unlike the sprawling sandy beaches of Southern California, ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

That’s exactly what happens at Relics Antique Mall in Springfield, Missouri – a treasure hunter’s paradise where nostalgia comes with a surprisingly affordable price tag. The brick facade of Relics ...

Padre Island Madre told MySA she saw the octopus along PINS on Monday, December 9. The beachgoer, who frequents the beach ...

The seven-armed octopus lives hundreds of meters below the surface of the sea and is one of the world's largest octopus species.

A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much to tell us about nature on ...

The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does ...