Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

During a tour of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Corey Allard noticed something strange: fish using six leg-like appendages to "walk" around the bottom of their tank.

A treasure trove of deep reef dwellers has been discovered in coral reefs off the coast of Guam, including 20 that are new to science – and there could be more yet to come. Deep coral reefs like those ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

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What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...