Jellyfish are among the oldest animals on Earth, found in all the world's oceans and serve as valuable model systems for biological research. Microbiologists at Kiel University (CAU) have now shown ...

Nearly 5,000 meters beneath the Atlantic, scientists have captured rare footage of a mysterious deep-sea creature.

In the first place, all hermaphrodite and all sessile animals may be excluded, and also those cases in which sexual differences depend on different habits of life. Mr. Darwin then shows that ...

One of the indigenous shrubs being removed was the ongonne soppu or the Sessile Joyweed. It had been growing in wild ... What made us prefer and prioritise one species over another? Why are some ...

Scientists returned to a 1979 Pacific Ocean mining test site, revealing long-term sediment changes and mixed impacts on deep-sea life.

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Starfish are predominantly scavengers and predators that feed on sessile or slow-moving prey ... Starfish remind us that in the animal kingdom, speed is relative, and survival often relies on many ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you think. A classic example of phoresy, the remora uses a modified fin that ...

Countless dirty secrets swirl around the way animals on factory farms live, but an even uglier one may be the way they sometimes die. “If everyone had to work a day in a meatpacking plant ...