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A team of researchers say that a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived 400 million year ago is like no type of creature ever found.

Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form

By Frank Landymore

A video that's gone viral on social media shows a miniature deer fiercely standing its ground and charging at a far more massive rhino.

Tiny Deer Takes on 1.7-Ton Rhinoceros

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered that crickets that were fed microplastics grew in size by a staggering 25 times over a seven-week period.

Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in America and Europe have discovered one remarkable organism in California: an amoeba that can survive extreme temperatures.

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures

By Sharon Adarlo

A startup called Mission Barns is using pig fat to grow pork in a bioreactor, a process with major implications for the meat industry.

New Startup Harvests Bacon Without Killing Pig

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby

A diver discovered the heinous piece of vandalism on a magnificent colony of plate coral, and not for the first time.

Officials Outraged by Coral Reef Vandalized With Underwater Graffiti

Researchers studying stray dogs inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, spotted at least three dogs that had turned blue. They may know why.

Stray Dogs in Chernobyl Zone Turn Mildly Blue

By Victor Tangermann

A truck that was transporting research monkeys crashed. Police say they carried dangerous diseases, claims that have since been refuted.

University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected With Horrific Diseases

By Victor Tangermann

This officially marks the second time Google had to shutter this particular office due to a bed bug invasion.

Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation

Canada's fisheries minister has stepped in to deny the transfer of 30 white whales to a suitable facility in China.

Canada Considering Doing Something Unforgivable to its Beluga Whales

Experts are scrambling to explain a rise in jellyfish blooms in the last place you'd expect: the freshwater lakes of middle America.

Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes

This week, researchers convened in Manchester, UK, to debate whether research into potentially dangerous "mirror life" should be halted.

Scientists Debate Whether to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

New research demonstrates how the first proteins could've formed without the help of biological processes.

Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

By Frank Landymore

A bombshell report revealed a bacteria whose genetic code is said to be more efficient than any other lifeform on earth.

Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

By Frank Landymore