Some of the spookiest animals live deep beneath the waves. Dive in and get to know these five eerie ocean animals.

For more information about how you can support the Scripps Oceanographic Collections by naming a species, or to join us for a tour, please contact us at (858) 822-1865 or supportscripps@ucsd.edu. This ...

Legless animals come in a variety of species ... hydrostatic skeleton for movement and object manipulation. Earthworms ...

The Museum’s collection of fossil annelids is both geologically and geographically diverse. The collection contains an estimated 14,000 specimens, including type and figured specimens. Annelid hard ...

Death is among the most unpleasant and often scary topics to some. However, it is an unavoidable part of our life cycle. Some animal species are often associated with death because of myths in various ...

Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts Sep. 18, 2024 — Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction ...

There is more to treating animals in an appropriate way than keeping them healthy. Are we right to use animals as objects of entertainment? From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an ...

A keystone in an arch's crown secures the other stones in place. Keystone species play the same role in many ecological communities by maintaining the structure and integrity of the community.

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

October 25, 2024 • More than a million species are at risk of extinction, many within decades, because of human actions. Among them? The kāhuli, Hawaii's native tree snails that are some of the ...

Oct. 25, 2024 — Drosophila is one of the most thoroughly studied lab animals -- with the exception of the female reproductive tract. Now a team of biologists has taken the first deep look at the ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Animals are the unknown victims of armed conflicts. Wildlife populations usually decline during warfare, with disastrous repercussions on ...