Some animals possess remarkable abilities to survive without oxygen for extended periods. Crucian carp convert waste into ethanol, releasing it through their gills. Painted turtles slow their ...

A publication by Steven G. Platt and Thomas R. Rainwater in the scientific journal Southeastern Naturalist discusses an ...

Fossils from South Australia are offering a surprising clue about the deep history of animal behavior. Spriggina floundersi, ...

Feedback has been spending far too much time reading the latest output of entirely made-up research studies from the Journal ...

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...

Heliconius butterflies live nearly a year thanks to pollen, revealing how diet, evolution, and biology can slow aging.

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competition Step aside World Cup heroes, there’s a bigger global ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ghostly invertebrates, animals living inside their own bodily fluids and ...

Imagine an animal that can solve puzzles, recognize human faces, use tools, and even plan for the future—all without a backbone or a centralized brain like mammals. Welcome to the fascinating world of ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...