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

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem—perhaps except the thing that matters most.

When endangered species reach low numbers, their survival can depend on whether or not they have new habitats to live in, ...

Wetlands are the planet’s quiet infrastructure, storing floodwater, filtering pollution, cooling coastlines, and feeding ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

But the most interesting animal in the newly opened Estero Americano Coast Preserve is one most people never see. It is a ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

Of all the creatures that have appeared before his lens, nothing thrills Patrick Webster more than his encounters with Mola ...

Guinness World Records announced the UPS store's nautical-themed float in this year's Rose Parade earned the record for the ...

Researchers studying rockhead poachers from Deadman Bay think they may have solved the mystery of the fish's odd bowl-shaped ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...