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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than 0.001 percent of the seafloor has ever been directly seen by scientists. From underwater trenches to sea caves, there ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

A survey of Oman's marine waters has revealed over 100 species of ribbon worms (Nemertea), marking the first systematic study of these marine predators in Arabian waters. The research, appearing in ...

The phylogenetic analysis of Nemertea, commonly known as ribbon worms, has undergone rapid advancement in recent years through the integration of molecular sequence data with traditional morphological ...

Rippling among blades of kelp or striking suddenly from sandy burrows, ribbon worms lurk through intertidal waters in search of their next target. These very thin, stretchy, and sometimes flamboyantly ...

More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced “keystones” in their ecosystems. Has the powerful metaphor lost its mathematical meaning? Anne ...

Some of the best known species on Earth may not be what they seem. Credit...Steve Holroyd/Alamy Supported by By Carl Zimmer Naturalists have been trying for centuries to catalog all of the species on ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists described a slew of new species this past year, including an electric blue tarantula, two pygmy squid, a silent frog, and some ...

While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of North America’s largest bird, Gymnogyps californianus, had dwindled to nearly zero by 1987 ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences described 153 new animal, plant, and fungi species in 2023, enriching our understanding of Earth's biodiversity and strengthening our ability to ...