Researchers have recently identified a many-legged invertebrate from the Silurian period.

As the only woman who has piloted the deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, Van Dover is among the few researchers to have explored hydrothermal vents firsthand.

A study of 13 starfish species reveals that even animals that live at depths where sunlight doesn’t reach have functioning eyes.

Marine species survived rafting thousands of kilometers on debris swept into the water by the giant wave, scientists say.

These millimeter-size sea creatures lived 540 million years ago.

Electrical shocks cause a physiological stress response in invertebrates previously thought incapable of feeling pain.

Researchers have found the New Guinea flatworm, one of the world’s most invasive species, in Florida, putting native ecosystems at serious risk.

Researchers discover a densovirus that is associated with sea star wasting disease.

Extinct, giant arthropods, long assumed to be top predators of ancient seas, didn’t have sharp enough eyesight to be refined hunters.