This lifeform’s extraordinary biology could hold the key to anti-aging breakthroughs.

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

While the jellyfish and sea anemone are awake, DNA damage accumulates in their nerve cells and when they doze, that damage is ...

Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

It looks like a child lost their floaty toy, right? But whatever you do, don’t try to pick it up. That ain’t no floaty toy.

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...