With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

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Scientists have identified a previously unknown microscopic roundworm living in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Nematode, formally ...

Utah biologists have characterized D. woaabi, the first of two nematode species recently discovered in the lake’s ...

Part four of the 'Living on the Edge' series looks at how rising human population, tourism and development is affecting wildlife on barrier islands. When crossing the Bob Sikes Bridge from Gulf Breeze ...

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While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...

Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the ...