For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic ...

While sharks may have emerged before trees, it’s the latter that holds the title of the longest-living organisms. The oldest-known, still-living, individual tree is a 4,857-year-old Californian ...

Strandings are not unusual for Texas beaches, and jellyfish wash up periodically when environmental conditions line up, ...

Police officers made a risky shark rescue after the animal was spotted struggling to free itself from a harmful fishing line ...

The grassy cliffs of Vágar Island in the Faroe Islands, Denmark, overlook powerful Atlantic waves below. A towering sea stack ...

This high-altitude terrain in Shahdag National Park, Azerbaijan, rises above a vast sea of clouds. Snow covers parts of the ...

Scientists warn that Kenya's second-largest city, Mombasa, is facing a convergence of climate hazards that could overwhelm ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

A 4-year-old male North Atlantic right whale known as “Division” (#5217) was found dead off the coast of Avon, N.C., on Jan. 27, 2026.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

There have been many exceptional horror films that have come from Australian filmmakers in the 21st century, such as Triangle ...

Florida's manatees faced near-record deaths for young sea cows in 2025, but also saw seagrass recovery, new legal protections ...