SANTA CRUZ — Officials from the Long Marine Lab and the Seymour Marine Discovery Center announced Tuesday that the metal supports holding up “Ms. Blue,” the iconic, 87-foot-long blue whale skeleton ...

Some starfish made of a brittle material fortify themselves with architectural antics. Beneath a starfish’s skin lies a skeleton made of pebbly growths, called ossicles, which mostly consist of the ...

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The American Museum of Natural History has found a more appropriate space for Apex, a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton lent to it last year, when it was first assembled and put on view. Apex is an 11 ...

Captured through the powerful lens of X-ray telescopes, the ethereal expanse of a pulsar wind nebula is revealed in unprecedented detail. Reading time 2 minutes Move over, Pillars of Creation—there’s ...