All-female team explores a promising compound against this ‘essentially incurable’ disease Society has no shortage of metaphors for cancer. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee famously titled his ...

A seastar that specializes in living on pieces of wood that have fallen into the ocean is among the top 10 new marine species ...

Scientists have captured stunning video of a dinner-plate-size sea spider crawling on the seafloor off the South Sandwich ...

Fans of reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates packed the Saratoga Springs City Center this weekend. Before you click away, ...

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million ...

The mysterious Greenland shark has an unusually long lifespan, and scientists are beginning to think they finally know why.

Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...