Scientists discovered that river otter droppings contain large numbers of parasites that infect the animals’ prey, indicating that otters may play a significant role in shaping local food webs.

Scientists have discovered a thriving hotspot of “weird” marine life more than two miles beneath the Arctic surface, marking the deepest known example of an environment called a gas hydrate “cold seep ...

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Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com It’s easy to lose perspective when you set foot inside the colossal ...

It’s easy to lose perspective when you set foot inside the colossal new downtown home of Crustacean, a longtime Vietnamese fine-dining fixture in The City that moved locations in July. Your eyes can’t ...

There’s a moment while cruising down the Overseas Highway in Islamorada when you’ll question whether the sun has finally fried your brain or if that really is a massive lobster looming ahead on the ...

Cruising down the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys, you might suddenly slam on your brakes, convinced your sun-soaked brain is playing tricks on you. But that enormous crustacean looming ahead?

At first glance, the blobfish, also known as a flathead sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus), looks like a pinkish, gelatinous blob with a droopy mouth and a sagging nose. It looks even worse when it is ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine copepods—the tiny crustaceans at the heart of the ocean food web—rely on a largely ...

As joyful and virtuosic and oddly touching as “Weird Al” Yankovic’s two-hour whirligig was on Sunday night at Ravinia Festival, I couldn’t help watch without sadness: Here is the last of the great ...