The mantle cavity also aids in respiration by bringing water to the animal's gills, which in turn filter oxygen into its bloodstream. During mating, the male uses a modified arm to transfer his ...

Perhaps our interest in Mantle was piqued by his destiny, the ruin he often foretold. Male Mantles frequently died before 40 - including his father and two uncles - cursed by Hodgkin's disease in ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...