nature

Deep below the Southern Ocean, explorers have found a chilling new inhabitant: a carnivorous sponge that looks like a cl...

Biologist Jon Allen quietly cares for one of the oldest ribbon worms on record — an adopted invertebrate nicknamed Baseo...

What looks like an ordinary rock can hide a lost world. In southeast Romania, a 3.5-kilogram stone used for decades as a...

Have you ever watched your dog nudge a prized chew under a sofa cushion, tuck a treat beneath a blanket, or bury a bone ...

New genetic detective work suggests the first steps toward complex, nucleated cells—ancestors of everything from amoebas...

High on the eastern slopes of the Andes, scientists have uncovered an extraordinary fossil record: nearly 18,000 dinosau...

New research suggests bioluminescence was an ancestral trait in octocorals, but today only a handful of species still gl...

On 29 July 2025 a powerful earthquake off Russia’s Kuril-Kamchatka trench generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, and a satell...

The University of Maine is mapping how offshore kelp farming could reshape coastal economies and supply chains. By pairi...

A puzzling fossil called Paradoxophidion is reopening questions about how modern snakes evolved. New study of museum spe...

New deep-sea drilling in the South Atlantic has revealed that broken lava deposits on the seafloor lock away far more ca...

A single-celled organism discovered in the steaming pools of Lassen Volcanic National Park has rewritten what scientists...

Scientists have just decoded the largest cephalopod genome on record from the elusive deep-sea creature commonly called ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered unexpected genetic parallels between humans and golden retriev...

Researchers have developed a new class of plastics that combine high strength with programmable lifespans. Inspired by n...

In July 2024 a powerful earthquake centered beneath Calama, northern Chile, challenged long-standing ideas about how dee...

Climate modelers warn that the next decades could bring a dramatic increase in multi-year droughts that overwhelm local ...

Two recently reported Chinese gold discoveries — the Wangu deposit in Hunan province and the Dadonggou deposit in Liaoni...

Many pet dogs carry a trace of their wild relatives: a new genomic analysis finds wolf ancestry across a majority of mod...

Scientists have found a surprising new trigger inside volcanic conduits: shear forces that "knead" magma and produce gas...