The arctic fox completely swaps its dark summer coat for a snow-white one when winter is coming. The kidney garden spider looks just like the Pringles man. And the world’s cutest sheep can be found in ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any animal to get preserved with exceptional detail in sandstones, which are ...

Cryptozoology has long fascinated people by exploring the possibility that mysterious creatures might exist beyond what our science has documented. In a world where it can feel like everything has ...

NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. In the evolutionary arms race that has raged on since life began, organisms have developed an endless variety of survival strategies.

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers baking bread, truck drivers driving that bread to market and grocers selling ...

How Did These Strange, Ancient Organisms Turn into Such Remarkable Fossils? New Research in Geology reveals why the 570-million-year-old Ediacaran Biota were so exceptionally preserved. Boulder, Colo.