Millipedes get a bad rap — their many legs put people off and could classify them as "creepy crawly." But these anthropods' secretions could hold the ...

A fossilized brain from a 500-million-year-old sea creature shows unexpected spider-like features, hinting that spiders and their kin may have evolved in the ocean—not on land.

When a string of misidentifications ended, a fossil sat in a drawer at Harvard for a century until its significance was recently discovered.

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Discover which U.S. states and cities have the highest rat populations, including Chicago, the “rat capital,” and learn the ...

A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting what we know about ancient life. Discovered in Harvard’s museum drawers, ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...