also conventionally regarded as echinoderms, are in fact more closely related to chordates 4 — the group that includes vertebrates such as ourselves. For example, Jefferies suggests that ...

Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

The Houston Museum of Natural Science's new exhibit Extreme Animals Alive brings a group of super heroes to the museum's ...

His white beard streaming in the turquoise waters, Waziri Mpogo dives under the surface a few hundred meters offshore of a ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in one of the most fossil-rich areas of the world.

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Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

The memories of first encounters with certain plants last a lifetime. Often, such plants are discovered growing in places ...

A Venn diagram could be used, for example, to compare two companies within the same industry by illustrating the products both companies offer (where circles overlap) and the products that are ...

Despite their name, sea stars aren’t fish—and they definitely don’t have brains. These marine animals operate using a nerve ring and radial nerve cords that run along each of their arms ...