This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to land, researchers say.

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In the deep waters off the coast of Indonesia, a camera quietly sank 200 meters to the ocean floor. It wasn’t part of a major research expedition or a university-backed project. The device belonged to ...

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A rare creature, glowing like a phantom in the Andalusian wild, has been captured on camera for the first time in history! The lynx in question was no ordinary animal — it was leucistic, a condition ...

They were so thick on the beaches of South Padre Island that one person described them as stepping stones. Squishy stepping stones. They were moon jellyfish, and a confluence of perfect conditions ...