Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

Ming, the world’s oldest known animal, lived for 507 years before being accidentally killed by humans in 2006.

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Wildlife lover Ayse Genisel was delighted to spot a baby sea otter through her binoculars, but people trying to get too close ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space In Murphy’s Final Weeks, NJ Climate ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...