A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to extinction since 2016. Those that have joined the International Union for the ...

The Marine Mammal Center may have found a new home. For more than 20 years, the nonprofit organization has rehabilitated sick ...

An animal ecologist researching large marine animals such as whales and dolphins, Assistant Professor Iwata Takashi of the ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the ...

These animals have highly unusual diets, evolving to consume anything from toxic plants to venomous arachnids.

A pair of dolphins leapt from the water next to a Florida police boat. The exciting video was shared to social media Jan. 4 ...

Learn how surface tension enables water striders to skate, and how nature’s tiny engineering marvels inspire robotics.

How does a thin-skinned, cold-blooded creature survive a below freezing Colorado winter without a fur coat or a ticket south?

A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal ...

Few animals look as calm and harmless as a hippo lounging in the water, but appearances can be deceiving. Dangerously so, in ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

At least 100 people from the impacted area packed the room, eager for updates on a spill that has disrupted daily routines, threatened private wells, and left homeowners scrambling for clean water.