The London School of Economics is launching a 4 million pounds research centre focused on animal consciousness. One of its ...

An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for ...

Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living things, including humans. Tetrodotoxin is most famously known from pufferfish — ...

A fossil with eyes on stalks and a clawed trunk, the Tully monster has defied classification for over 70 years—and still has ...

A new exhibit has hatched at the Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth entitled "Marvelous Mollusks: The ...

Although they are generally considered rather dumb and obnoxious birds, the truth is that seagulls are intelligent enough to drop mollusks from great heights to crack their shells, eat foods that ...

An analysis of published data on oceanic seabirds diets, show the predominance of muscular cephalopods with superficial distribution in the oceanic layers, but also important are the gelatinous and ...

This summer, a new, innovative exhibit has hatched at the Museum of the Earth, located at 1259 Trumansburg Rd. “Marvelous ...

Cephalopod suction was previously thought to be a product of these creatures’ soft, flexible bodies, which can deform easily ...

Costa Rica’s Térraba-Sierpe National Wetland, a 33,000-hectare haven of mangroves and rivers, is under siege from an unlikely source: pineapple farms. A study by natural resource management specialist ...