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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Being able to slither gracefully through the ocean isn't the only thing ...

Beneath the waves, there are strange, almost alien creatures that raise questions about the evolution of life on Earth and our own earliest origins. The answers might be hiding in tunicates. Tunicates ...

The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake, or Hydrophis platurus, stands as a testament to marine life adaptation. It severed all ...

A millimeter-sized sea animal could hold clues to the evolution of the human nervous system. While placozoans are simple animals only as big as a grain of sand, the blobs have unique cells that could ...

A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought. By Sam Jones Bioluminescence is used throughout the animal kingdom, ...

A Galápagos sea lion group chases yellowfin tuna into a cove on the Galápagos Islands. In a remote cove on the Galápagos islands sea lions have recently started to hunt yellowfin tuna in response to ...