Photographs taken by citizen scientist scuba divers show that female sand tiger sharks develop an affinity to certain…

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past year, you’ll know that the end of Avengers: Infinity War was a…

For the first time ever, scientists placed alligator carcasses at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to see which bottom…

A dolphin post-mortem may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Many people have a soft spot for the highly intelligent…

Antarctica is huge, stretching nearly 3,500 miles at its widest extent. Despite its enormous size, however, the frozen…

Spiders are creepy even at the best of times, but new photos taken from the Amazon rainforest put these predatory…

Last year, a team of scientists embarked on a mission to explore the seafloor exposed when a Delaware-sized iceberg…

In 1835, Charles Darwin documented the presence of iguanas on Santiago island, the largest in the Galapagos…

New research shows that garbage piles produced by leaf-cutter ants emit significant amounts of nitrous oxide—a potent…

Life is hard for Ridgway’s hawks, a species found only in a small sliver of habitat on the Caribbean island of…

Unprecedented footage from Costa Rica shows tiny tropical lizards “breathing” from an air sac suspended atop their…

New scientific results have strengthened the case that the ubiquitous northern cardinal could be two species of bird or…

In 2016 and 2017, disaster struck the world’s largest living structure: back-to-back heat waves caused half of all…

In the inky depths of the Gulf of Mexico, pearly white corals crisscross the seafloor, their translucent tentacles…

A 30-year analysis of Amazonian trees finds the world’s largest rainforest is already adapting to climate change, but…

In 2011, a colossal tsunami set off by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake slammed into the eastern shores of Japan. Not long…

Medicines do an excellent job of increasing the quality of life for humans around the world, but the drugs don’t stay…

Madagascar’s history contains some truly enormous animals, from giant lemurs to giant tortoises. The island was also…

Our oceans are brimming with microscopic phytoplankton—plant-like organisms that contribute significantly to marine…

The aye-aye is about as ridiculous looking as a primate can get: beady yellow eyes, bat-like ears, and hands like…