In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a team of researchers discovered a new species of monkey and formed deep friendship along the way.

The ocean is teeming with life, much of it undiscovered, and one recent discovery has the potential to change the face of ...

Fossil finds are exciting moments that sometimes introduce the world to an ancient mammal or dinosaur that existed millions ...

Leaving aside the issue of exactly how much of their body they can see (some fish, like eels, can probably see quite a bit of ...

Microbiologists from Stellenbosch University in South Africa have discovered a previously unknown bacterial genus within the phylum Acidobacteriota. It is the first genus from this phylum to be ...

Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly strange ways to reproduce and care for their babies. Scorpion mothers carry still-soft-shelled babes on their backs, reminding us that even ...

For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans. These tiny, filter-feeding colonial animals live in almost every ocean ...

The U.S. Naval Academy welcome members of the Class of 2030 Thursday, when they reported for Induction Day. Roughly 1,100 young men and women report to the U.S. Naval Academy. Incoming plebes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has finalized a regulatory change redefining "shellfish," removing the long-standing ...

The Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee meets Monday to vote on the Class of 2026, with an announcement to follow in the afternoon. The list of candidates is long, led by a six-time Selke Trophy ...

Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ranks to classify them, from a new order of sponges to a new supergroup of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history ...