The ocean is a wild habitat where any keen beachgoer could spy a myriad of marine life that comes covered in shells or swims ...

Pine trees are one of the most common coniferous species in North America. Learn how to identify the types found in the United States and Canada.

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

The discovery by UF/IFAS researchers marks the first documented instance of SSWD in the Atlantic Ocean and the first known ...

Researchers Trace Evolutionary Trajectory of Starfish's Unique Symmetry Through a 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil The star shape ...

It's not every day that a species makes it off the endangered list — but the Colorado hookless cactus is having a good year. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently reported that the ...

The high seas of the dinosaur era were teeming with a plethora of squids, a new study has found. Using a new technique for analyzing fossils locked away in chunks of rock, paleontologists in Japan and ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds boaters and anglers that Canada requires watercraft and equipment to meet Canadian aquatic invasive species regulations before crossing into ...

Starfish Scent May Shield Great Barrier Reef Coral Researchers have found a new, naturally derived technology that could help control outbreaks of the coral-munching crown-of-thorns starfish - by ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million years ago.

The fossils, now described as a new species called Atlascystis acantha, has bilateral symmetry like us, but is an ancient relative of all starfish alive today. The species belonged to a group of ...