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 ...

Over the past few decades, the harvesting of the Cortez oyster in western Mexico’s Marismas Nacionales — or the Marshes ...

Romans actually had public toilets—which is honestly impressive. But instead of toilet paper, they used a sponge attached to a stick, called a tersorium. The same sponge was shared by everyone. They ...

In the meantime, agencies like the Washington State Department of Health have been relying on citizen scientists to help ...

The IUCN Red List, which assesses the extinction risk of species, lists over 100 bird species as extinct since 1500. Sadly, ...

Sea slugs, such as Elysia chlorotica, are small marine creatures that produce energy from sunlight - just like plants.