For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

My grandson Parker recently sent me an email and one of the strangest animal photos I have ever received. Most of my ecologist colleagues have never seen the critter that Parker found, but he knew ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

At first glance, a glacier looks like a rather lifeless thing—a barren chunk of ice. But there’s much more than meets the eye: Glaciers are home to a host of tiny organisms that make up a flourishing ...

Divers off the coast of New Zealand came face to face with a giant sea worm that was almost 30-foot long. The creature is called a pyrosome, and while it might look intimidating, it's actually ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

When a planarian flatworm loses its head, it simply grows another. The head, if left alone, can grow a body to match. In a ...

Headless chicken monster: The deep sea cucumber with tubular feet for gobbling sediment Paralvinella hessleri: The yellow worm that lives in acid and fights poison with poison Never-before-seen ...

It’s enough to chill one’s blood. California whale watchers were left terrified after encountering an undulating blood-red sea creature that looked straight out ...