She tried to slither right past customs. A woman was stopped at a Chinese border-crossing point last month when customs agents noticed her “weird” body shape — and found five live corn snakes stuffed ...

Customs officials received a slippery surprise after searching a suspicious-looking traveler at the border crossing between China and Hong Kong. Hidden in the woman's bra were five pet corn snakes, ...

Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes? That is the hypothesis put forward in a new research paper published in PNAS ...

Jodi Page's first solo show, "Strange Weather," offers 17 highly sculptural and intriguingly detailed ceramic pieces she has produced in the past six months. What Page calls her "vessels" evoke ...

At first glance, starfish seem to be all limbs, with five appendages lined with rows of tube feet giving them their signature shape. Marine scientists have long wondered how they evolved to have such ...

Starfish are some of the strangest creatures of the animal kingdom—so much so that scientists didn’t even know for sure if the animals had heads. A new study from the Stanford University and UC ...

The creatures can therefore "shape-shift" to perfectly fit their environment, according to the study. The shells are "bluish ...