You don’t need to have ever seen a hagfish to have an idea of a hagfish. I mean, it’s called a hagfish for crying out loud.

They're sneaky. They're slimy. And they're hungry for meat. The hagfish, or slime eel, has earned its name due to its unique defense mechanism. When they are agitated, hagfish can secrete slime to ...

Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most ...

Evolution sounds like a straight climb toward better survival, but fossil records and genetic research show species sometimes ...

Photograph taken during deployment showing experiment configuration. Whalebones, wood and carbonate substrates images were placed on the bottom of the ocean. Image from the study. When a whale dies ...

Twelve strange animals reveal evolution’s rule: survival is a tradeoff and unusual design wins only in the habitat that fits ...

It may be the way they look or the way they behave – the end result is that they are truly fascinating. It may be the way ...

Unless you are at the very top of a food chain, this is a major concern for your entire life. Animals have developed a huge range of defense mechanisms to evade, hide from, and scare off potential ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...