They stopped at Kentucky road cuts searching for Ordovician fossils from a time when the area was underwater. At first, the finds looked like ordinary shell fossils scattered through the rock. Then ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a striking new image of Messier 77, revealing glowing spiral arms, dense dust, ...

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Some animals don’t just break records, they make the record look impossible. A whale longer than a basketball arena. A beetle ...

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Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, ...

The Hawaiian bobtail squid, a small, multi-colored native of coastal waters in Hawai'i, uses bioluminescence to camouflage itself and evade predators. However, the costume change is only possible ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report from U.K.-based NGO the Environmental Justice Foundation draws on interviews with 81 fishers, mainly Indonesian sailors who worked ...

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