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In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single ...

The slow loris, a nocturnal primate from tropical regions, is often seen as one of nature's "dumbest" animals due to its ...

FIU scientists have discovered two major problems after analyzing small shark fins from Hong Kong markets—small coastal ...

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute identified an intriguing new deep sea species off of California. It's see-through, can glow, and nabs prey with a large hood. At one point ...

A new study highlights how some marine life could face extinction over the next century, if human-induced global warming ...

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was ...