The sting from a geographic cone snail is potent enough to kill a human. Learn all about this fascinating predatory snail.

Dozens of spiny water fleas are entangled on a fishing line. The animals, which are smaller than a fingernail and invasive in the Northeast, are often transported between water bodies on fishing ...

From bears to tardigrades, discover which animals can endure months without eating and how they pull off this incredible feat.

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Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was ...

Plants are master strategists. Even the staples on our plates include quiet assassins, stealthy amphibians. Take a look.

The moment you bite into a conch fritter at Fish Shack in Lighthouse Point, Florida, you’ll understand why people have been known to weep tears of pure joy. This modest seafood joint has quietly ...

The French onion soup gratinée deserves its own moment of appreciation – a crock of deeply flavored broth that speaks to hours of patient caramelization, topped with a slice of crusty bread and ...

Scientists document thousands of bumblebee catfish, Rhyacoglanis paranensis, climbing waterfalls in Brazil, revealing nocturnal migrations.

When healthy, anemones look like pink flowers blossoming on rocks and coral, and serve as homes for clownfish, made famous by the film Finding Nemo. But in 2023 biologists found an entire population ...

Four-limbed vertebrates, known as tetrapods, have two enlarged areas in their spinal cords. The two enlargements have a correlation with the forelimbs and hind limbs, respectively. These enlargements ...

The Idaho Department of Agriculture says it wants to rid the river of invasive mussels for good, which hasn't been done before in a river system. There’s only one molluscicide approved by the U.S.