A chiton does not look like an animal that would challenge assumptions about vision. It resembles a small armoured shell ...

The recent heatwave that swept the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada claimed many human casualties, including at least 486 sudden deaths in British Columbia. But when the thermometer reached an ...

The intertidal zone presents a uniquely dynamic environment where organisms endure rapid changes in temperature, salinity, oxygen availability and desiccation. To thrive under such challenging ...

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Humans are tampering with the selective forces acting on organisms all over the planet and accelerating the rates at which ...

Professor Richard Emlet holds out a strange animal that looks like a cross between a gumboot and a helmet that’s almost imperceptibly curling up into a ball. “Whoa! Look at this, guys!” he calls to ...