Oysters and mangroves are both essential to protecting and restoring Florida's coastlines that they call home, including ...

A fossil unearthed during the Civil War was mislabeled for over a century, and is now said to be something completely ...

Here’s a fun science fact for the day: down in the ocean’s darkest, coldest depths, an area we’ll call Davy Jones’ sub-locker ...

Perfect Organism is all of the above, and more. That can occasionally be an awkward fit, like a Chestburster and, well, a ...

Fire crews are not just fighting a fire, but the weather, as they work to contain the Monroe Canyon Fire as it races toward ...

A model wasp species loved and well studied by scientists has another trick under its wings – the ability to pause ...

A creature resembling a jellyfish was spotted in a pond at Presque Isle State Park. Said creature is called a Craspedacusta ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...

“Listeria monocytogenes (is) an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems,” the company ...

Their research report describes a new organism they've put together, using only 473 genes. That gives it the smallest genome of any known living thing that is able to reproduce on its own. (For ...

This organism is a single cell organism, entirely analogous to the syphilis bacterium. It's sexually transmitted from one dog to the next. It produces tumors that can kill its victims.