After 15 years of relentless searching and more than 1,000 expeditions, NOAA researchers have achieved an unprecedented feat: spotting a living nautilus in its natural habitat. This discovery is ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

leading scientists to describe it as a “living fossil.” Its fractal shell designs are so beguiling that consumer demand for the shells is pushing the animals toward extinction. Populations of the ...

Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also known as "living fossils," in the deep waters near the German Channel. The sighting, ...