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A robust, largely unregulated online trade in isopods could pose a serious threat to some vulnerable species, scientists warn ...

Ahead of a grand re-opening in just a few months, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is now peeling back the curtain on something new visitors will see when they’re ...

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.