Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

Some of the animals that can be found in the Atlantic ... meaning that they feed and grow in freshwater and move to the sea to spawn. They live up to 20 years in freshwater, then migrate to ...

From deadly 'living fossils' to glowing sea angels ... mucus-coated “dumplings” and consumed. These deep sea marvels exemplify the animal world’s desire to survive, even in the harshest ...

Last fortnight there were in captivity just two sea elephants, both in Germany. One day in the Hanover Zoo, four-ton Goliath III sighed through his dewlap snout and died. Forty-eight hours later ...

At first glance, this tiny sea slug—measuring just a few ... This makes it one of the very few animals capable of photosynthesis. Living in shallow waters near Japan, Indonesia, and the ...

From animal journeys across oceans to the discovery of dozens of new species in the deep sea, these stories wowed us ...

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction WASHINGTON -- Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers ...

But which animal has the longest tail of all? In proportion to their bodies, grass lizards have the longest tails of any known living animal. The tails of these small, lightweight lizards are two ...

The study sheds new light on the fundamental importance of maintaining body shape in animals and enhances our understanding of the molecular pathways involved in regeneration. The starlet sea ...