Children are taught that all living organisms -- from animals, plants, and fungi to bacteria and single-celled organisms -- belong to specifically different categories of organic life. A new discovery ...

An enigmatic fossil, once considered one of the earliest mollusks, has recently been reclassified by scientists from Durham and Yunnan universities. This discovery challenges our knowledge about the ...

From a Hercules beetle tough natural armor to a sea anemone’s soft fluid-filled body, nature boasts a variety of skeletons. A circa-1910 x-ray photograph of pot-bellied seahorses shows their ...