Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences, holds an ivory-billed woodpecker in San Francisco on September 24, 2021. Haven Daley/AP ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed declaring 23 species extinct this week. The species include birds, fish, mussels, and 11 species from Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. Because the animals have ...

Marine ecologist Jeff Goddard was searching for sea slugs in the tide pools of a California beach near Santa Barbara when something strange caught his eye: two tiny translucent white clams. Goddard ...

Scientists discover what appears to be the second known living species of vampire squid swimming in deep water off Hainan island, China. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The world's abalone are threatened, endangered or otherwise vulnerable in nearly every corner of the planet. If only we could wave a magic wand to know when abalone are ready to reproduce, without ...

Researchers found fragments of fossils representing prehistoric mollusks, crustaceans and worms among rocks at the Grand Canyon. Mussini et al. More than half a billion years ago, strange worms and ...

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