Octopuses and squids carry the largest nervous systems of any invertebrate, and roughly two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons ...

While it seems like researchers are finding new fossils all the time, it is actually quite rare for an animal to become fossilized. The vast majority of all animals that ever lived do not become ...

It would have been easy to overlook. More than 1,700 metres beneath the surface near the Galápagos Islands, researchers exploring an underwater mountain spotted what appeared to be a tiny blue blob ...

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