If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

The Smithsonian opened the MSC in 1983 to ease overcrowding at the natural history museum’s main building on the National ...

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Dive into the abyss and discover 25 creepy deep sea creatures you've never heard of! From frilled sharks to vampire squid, ...

Most polychaete species spend their lives in burrows in the seabed. However, adult individuals of two species, Alitta ...

In Episode 7 of Alien: Earth, things get violent in a hurry. “Emergence” is all about damage control in all corners of Neverland, as the aftermath of Isaac’s death and Arthur’s hugged face lead to ...

Antarctic scale worms are bizarre deep-sea predators equipped with extendable jaws that can rapidly emerge to seize prey in ...

The discovery of a fossil "treasure trove" has pushed back the origins of animals at least four million years. The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a creature that "looks like the sand ...

A newly observed feeding behavior suggests jellyfish may exploit short-lived seasonal events in surprising ways.

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