Anybody who has seen "Finding Nemo" knows about those captivating monsters of the sea: anglerfishes. Variously horrific or ...

How can you find where a river was after it's gone? Turns out, the answer might be in the aquatic citizens it left behind!

It usually takes millions of years for new species to evolve, but not for fish in one African lake.

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains why scientists believe central China should be protected as a global biodiversity hotspot ...

The specialized arm that male octopuses use for mating is also a sensory organ that can detect the ovarian hormone progesterone, according to new ...

Learn how a flip in Earth's magnetic field may have caused changes in the radiation on our planet.

Kara M. Kelly Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics Expertise: children and cancer, especially ...

Self-anointing occurs in many species, and there are multiple reasons for it. Rice-field rats self-anoint with the anal gland ...