When we think of large birds, we might picture swans, ostriches, or eagles. But which bird is the biggest? Well, it depends on what you mean by big! When considering the "biggest" bird species, ...

A snapshot of blacktip reef sharks hunting hardyhead silverside fish won the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

On Thursday, the Aquarium of the Pacific released its first Marine Species Report Card, detailing the population trends of 30 ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Discover the incredible underwater escape strategy of water anole lizards in Costa Rica. Learn how they create air bubbles to ...

Pulicat, a town in Tamil Nadu, is a key launch site for Indian rockets, home to migratory birds and cottage industry.

Editor’s note: This post looks back to 2012, when the accompanying image was captured on a Mexican beach, at a time when it was not widely known that adult great white sharks inhabited the Sea ...

People relax on a beach of the Black Sea in the resort town of Alushta on the Crimean peninsula on June 18, 2023. The t-shirt reads “Z rescuer” – referring to a tactical insignia of Russian troops in ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears ... but they're usually incredibly small, about 2.5 centimeters. The new species had ...

Scallop fishers in the Bay of Fundy are keeping an eye out for a creamy-white species that grows on ... The invasive marine invertebrate is known as sea vomit, sea squirt and pancake-batter ...

Bird flu might have killed over 60 geese, swans and ducks found in a Plymouth pond called Billington Sea recently, according to a press release from four state health and environmental agencies Sunday ...