If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

The prize for the smallest animal goes to a group of microscopic species. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tiny animals are, by ...

A recent study has found that soil is home to 59% of all life on Earth, from an insect feeding on the soil surface to a tiny microbe nestled in a soil pore. This discovery crowns soil as the most ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 29, No. 7 (July 2023), pp. 821-833 (13 pages) Aim: The interplay between distribution ranges, species traits and sampling and taxonomic biases remains elusive amongst ...

A study shows that researchers can tweak a natural process to increase the amount of carbon that reaches the ocean floor and the speed at which it does so — merely by coating the water's surface with ...

HAYDEN LAKE, Idaho – Diane Lawrence couldn’t identify the gelatinous masses attached to the community dock in her Hayden Lake subdivision. They were translucent with a jellyfish-like texture, and they ...