Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other specialized tissues, were the first animal ...

The city of Venice and its surrounding lagoon are irreversibly at the mercy of climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to submerge the island in the coming decades, as the system of flood barriers ...

Learn how the comb jelly is taking over the Mediterranean, threatening local marine life and expected to only worsen with a changing climate. Don’t be fooled by this harmless, cute-looking jelly ...

For decades, biologists have attempted to trace the earliest split on the animal tree of life, one that occurred approximately 600 million years ago. All living animals, from mammals to mollusks, ...

During a dive off Argentina, scientists documented a rare jellyfish discovered a little over a century ago and seldom seen since, as well as the fish that keep it company. By Alexa Robles-Gil In late ...

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