For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

Michael Aranda shares some newly discovered animal oddities this week, including the secret shared by sloths and moths, the ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

The animals' extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they ...