Several orca rush a Weddell seal in this remarkable image taken from the air. The whales create a wave that washes the seal into the water, making a much more accessible meal for the orcas. This photo won the Behavior: Mammals category.
Governments can make it harder to get around internet restrictions, but eliminating the workarounds is another matter entirely.
The team counted approximately 3,500 metric tons' worth of eels. Yes, tons.
Our planet is covered in ants. Researchers now say their ascendance escalated 66 million years ago, powered by retrovirus-like “jumping genes.”
Against unlikely odds, this two-foot amphibian brought terror to Triassic seas 237 million years ago.
Scientists working with Indonesia’s Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center have confirmed that the critically endangered Bangka slow loris—while excellent at hiding—is very much not extinct yet.
There has been a recent uptick in reported animal cases of the New World screwworm this month.
