Lazarus taxa, where a species is declared extinct but later learned to be alive and kicking, is the reason people think the ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...

The Polyplacophora differ from the other taxa of the phylum Mollusca in that their dorsal shell is formed by eight plates or valves, and the mantle forms a belt around the plates. They are benthic and ...

As primary decomposers of organic matter, mucoralean fungi have an important ecological role in edaphic systems in the Atlantic Forest. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding how communities of ...