By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate The black-and-white buddy comedy “Tallywacker” opens on Aleister, its star, a ...

An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs. Researchers discovered the brittle star in 2015, in a barrel of ...

We tend to associate intelligence with large brains, but a group of headless animals is proving us wrong. Brittle stars, a relative to sea stars, have no brains at all and can still manage to learn ...

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A global DNA study of brittle stars shows deep-sea species are far more connected than previously known, spanning entire oceans over millennia. Credit: Shutterstock A world-first study conducted by ...

In a new global study, scientists have discovered that marine life in the deep sea is far more connected than previously thought. By analysing the DNA of thousands of brittle stars – ancient, spiny ...

Brittle stars, ancient marine creatures, reveal how deep-sea animals migrate and connect globally. Unlike shallow-water species, they expand across oceans thanks to larvae drifting on currents. This ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

Scientists caught a “long”-tailed creature in a trap in a forest of India and discovered an “elusive” new species, a study said. Photo shared by Rohit Chakravarty The summaries below were drafted with ...

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In the shallow waters off the coast of Taiwan, a new long-armed creature was discovered. Matt Tsai via Unsplash In the rocky intertidal zones along the coast of Taiwan, a five-armed creature scuttles ...