Shell of New Species of Land Snail Coils Its Own Way
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One snailâs shell is more like a rocket engine than a natural formation.
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Two Hungarians puzzled by how certain creatures with shells, like turtles and beetles, are able to self-right have developed a shape with one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium to explain the phenomenon.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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A puffer fish genome sequence sheds light on human biology, and tells a twisted evolutionary story. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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U.S. scientists have found a new species of Antarctic fish that are about 13-inches long, thrive in the cold and have an interorbital pit with two openings.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used such unusually long appendages.
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Mysterious deep-sea giants that use their bioluminescent arms to dazzle and catch prey have been filmed for the first time ever in the wild. With videos
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Tough and tiny snails that threaten to crowd out native species by hogging all the food have shown up in a Colorado creek for the first time, state wildlife biologists said Tuesday.
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Tiny single-celled organisms, many of them previously unknown, have been discovered beneath nearly seven miles of water in the deepest part of the ocean.
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A spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armored body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth, scientists said.
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The parasitic larvae of the Alcon blue butterfly mimic the chemical signature of not one, but two ant species.
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WASHINGTON -- The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics...
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The evolution of whales from four-legged land dwellers into streamlined swimmers has been traced in fossilised ears, Nature reports.
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By Boyd, Donald W  ABSTRACT-  Dimorphosiphon talbotorum n. sp. from the Upper Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite of Wyoming is an ancient representative of the erect skeleton-building green algae. Circumstantial evidence indicates that the original skeletal material was aragonite. If so, D.
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The genitals of male seed beetles are extraordinarily spiny, helping to anchor the males inside females as they attempt to impregnate them. Unfortunately, these spikes damage the females, potentially compromising the entire reproductive mission.  Now scientists have discovered an evolutionary arms race with these beetle genitalia, with female genitals growing tougher the spinier the male genitals are. The speed at which genitals change in this battle of the sexes could help shed light on how new species evolve.  A similar battle of the genitals  among waterfowl was announced in April. ...
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The giant  palm salamander of Central America shoots out  its tongue with more instantaneous power than any known muscle in the animal  kingdom, a new study finds.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.