Surrounding the remote island of Miyake, off the east-central coast of Japan, the stoney sea floor matches the volcanic rock on the surface. Scattered across the rocks are patches of green algae, ...

More than a thousand feet beneath an expansive ice shelf, a “slender” creature scurried through the frigid depths of the Antarctic waters on its “long” legs — straight into a huge net. Researchers ...

Eumillipes persephone is a creature unlike any other: It uses the pulsing rings on its body to burrow deep underground, where it keeps cool from the scorching Australian sunshine. Oh, and it’s got ...