The oldest known sex chromosome in animals has been discovered, pushing back the date for the evolution of sex chromosomes to ...
Coconut shell octopus in Lembeh Straits. Photo via Getty Images Ray Nayler’s novel The Mountain in the Sea asks the kinds of questions about us, our future and our interaction with other living ...
Researchers have identified an extinct vampire squid-like creature that is the first of its kind with 10 functional arms. The earliest known relative of octopuses and vampire squid has been named ...
In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious creature.” ...
And here's a cool fact from Smithsonian Magazine, "To survive in the deep ocean, octopuses’ blood is powered by a ...
Seasoned diver Jules Casey assumed the enormous octopus was merely curious about her when he stretched out a long tentacle ...
Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.
Humans are everywhere nowadays, but Homo sapiens and our close relatives weren't so widespread in the past. In fact, the ...
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A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The 'copy-paste ...
A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech Assistant Professor Michael Bartlett have developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely gripping objects underwater. Their research was ...
Not only is factory farming the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet, it is damaging our planet through pollution, ...