The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Life on Earth may have developed the ability to form embryos even before it grew the very first animals. A single-celled organism that lives burrowed in the muck beneath shallow seas bears a startling ...

Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, excitedly carrying a blob in a beaker. The biologist had just come from the first floor ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...

A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Some Miami Seaquarium dolphins find new home in Florida Keys KEY LARGO, Fla. — Four bottlenose dolphins born in captivity at the now-shuttered Miami Seaquarium will now live out the rest of their ...

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