For two years running, the Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France has had to reduce and shut down units of operation due to the arrival of swarms of jellyfish. On August 11, 2025, the ...

While one might assume that lowering huge white blocks of concrete into the sea was an attempt at dumping construction waste ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Gąsiorowski et al., bioRxiv, 2026) Give a tiny flatworm plenty of food, and its solitary body rapidly lengthens as new heads ...

Researchers have discovered self-destructing immune cells in planarian flatworms. The cells commit suicide within minutes to ...

Studies have found microplastics in various species of Amazonian wildlife, including fish, tapirs, crabs and bats, even ...

A young bonnethead shark carries a feature that appears to fade with age: a sharply defined point at the front of its ...

Fossils found in Canada suggest animal movement and sexual reproduction began 5 million to 10 million years earlier than ...

A spectacular fossil site in Canada contains 567-million-year-old creatures that may represent some of the earliest animals to move, reproduce sexually, and develop recognizable body plans. The ...

Beachgoers are reporting more incidents of stingray encounters and lashings as a marine heat wave off the Southern California coast draws the bottom dwellers closer to shore in record numbers.

The ocean is home to animals so enormous that some can outweigh entire groups ...

Regulators have proposed a 500-fold increase to a controversial pesticide limit on Australian berries. Is it time to go ...

EL PAÍS has selected examples of architectural projects that have had staunch defenders, but also angry detractors who ...