One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

Some of nature’s most mesmerizing works of art might just be hanging in your backyard. The artist is an orb weaver spider.

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Animals have evolved crab-like bodies at least five times throughout history, a process known as carcinization.

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Soft shell crabs aren’t a species - they’re a moment. In this video, we explore how crab farmers time the harvest down to the hour, catching crabs in the rare window just after they molt. Canada ...

The Hearty Blueshell Snail is a one of the creatures found in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Most creatures drop recoverable materials and some are used for as ingredients for cooking, side ...

Everyone who lives or vacations near the ocean has gone on an early morning beach walk to collect shells and, thinking they have found a perfectly intact specimen, bent over and plucked it from the ...

For deep reef divers, descending into the ocean’s mesophotic layer can feel like exploring the moon. Discovering never-before-seen marine species is part of the mission. The deep diving team heads ...

An aerial view of Tel Shikmona, on the rocky Mediterranean coast of northern Israel. Archaeologists have uncovered traces of nearly three millennia of habitation at the site, including evidence for a ...

To test the theory that right-handed snails led to right-handed snakes, scientists conducted feeding experiments with four ...