A rare species of sea snail known as janthina was found at a SoCal beach. These creatures are known for their vibrant violent shells and the bubble rafts they create to stay afloat.

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.

Visitors to a popular San Diego beach have recently discovered unique, shimmering purple shells scattered along the sand.

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely so black-and-white.

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...