Picture this: vast underwater mountains hiding creatures that seem ripped from science fiction, animals that create their own ...

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A quick tour through some of the most unusual, surprising, and downright bizarre animals found in nature. Trump admin reacts ...

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Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...