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Nature’s diversity is most apparent when viewed through the eyes, literally. Throughout the animal kingdom, the ability to ...

The yeti crab is a strange species because of its furry appearance. Read here to learn about why these crabs are furry!

Picture a pair of eyes the size of soccer balls peering out at you from the dark depths of the ocean. For the colossal squid, this is life. The eye si.

Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...

Gray wolves are hunting sea otters. Scientists are studying how land predators adapt to ocean hunting and what this means for ecosystems.

DNA study reveals crocs that lived in the Seychelles represented the westernmost population of saltwater crocodiles, having ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

Ever feel run off your feet? Spare a thought for sea stars, creatures whose movement involves the coordination of hundreds of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most ...

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

Decades of melting sea ice and increasingly ice-free days in the region have not had the expected health impacts on this ...