She is a gastropod — the family that includes snails, slugs and whelks — and was recently discovered as a new species. Semisulcospira egretta, named after the city bird of Xiamen, the egret, was ...

The mimic octopus, which lives in sandy habitats devoid of any shelter, even impersonates some of the ocean’s deadliest ...

The study highlights that previously documented smaller mesosaurs likely represented juveniles or subadults, as reported by phys.org. These smaller sizes may reflect mass mortality events rather than ...