An itsy-bitsy mollusk in Borneo is the new record holder for the world's smallest known snail, a new study finds. Its shiny, translucent, white shell has an average height of 0.027 inches (0.7 ...

A newly identified, 500-million-year-old squid-like creature looked like a cross between a shrimp and a cartoon alien, but it was actually one of the world's oldest and most primitive cephalopods. The ...

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A tiny sea mollusk uses eyes made of a calcium carbonate crystal to spot predators lurking above, researchers say of the first such rocky lenses found in the animal kingdom. While scientists had ...

Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of these creatures that it took 20 years just to figure out what exactly it was.

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Researchers have discovered a new species of glowing sea slug deep in the ocean’s midnight zone. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists said in a press release on Tuesday that ...