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

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

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, ...

This strange and mesmerizing sea creature can age in reverse when times get tough, in a move that would make Benjamin Button ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Brock’s iron shield fish adds to the rich prehistoric history of McGraths Flat, and contributes to its classification as a ...

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...