Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

The animals can clog power plants and drinking water intakes, decimate native freshwater mussels and disrupt aquatic ...

For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

The story of Edward the Leopard was a delicate, even ticklish, matter. Edward had once lived a life of leisure, racing ...

A. Picasso isn’t the only of the new microsnails with a name inspired by the arts either; a species discovered from Myanmar ...

They say beauty is everywhere if we have eyes to see. A team of scientists looked at a tiny, 3-mm snail and saw art.

Long Island chefs face challenges in promoting local fish due to customer preferences for imported species like salmon and ...

Imagine a creature that can solve puzzles, taste with its skin, shape-shift at will, and even edit its own genetic code. It ...

With precision and whimsy, Noma’s head chef transforms every dish at the Copenhagen restaurant into a moment worth ...

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly ...

To make matters even worse for butter clam fans, these mollusks retain biotoxins for longer than other clams. In 2022, for example, someone got paralytic shellfish poisoning despite the bloom ...

Below, we’ll take an in-depth look at 11 examples of animals with no bones ... we’ll move on to a type of animal with no bones consisting of nine species: the nautilus. These strange-looking mollusks ...