Dive into the depths of the ocean to discover seven rare deep-sea creatures so strange and elusive, you won't believe they ...

These creatures are so fragile that the moment they are pulled out from the water, they collapse and disappear.

Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

A new team of Indonesian scientists is now surveying its biodiversity, including with submersible dives that put the researchers right into the environment they are studying.

A dome-­fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000m in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

Groundbreaking research is revealing that communication among whales is far more complex and sophisticated than previously believed.

Nature has a strange sense of drama. Some animals look like they stepped out of a horror movie, yet they are among the most ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s ruthlessly efficient. The queen collects sperm from multiple drones in one flight, stores it for years, and then spends her life laying up to 2,000 eggs a day.

That’s Halibut Point State Park in Rockport, Massachusetts for you—a coastal gem where granite quarries meet crashing ...

Some landscapes feel so unreal that your brain needs a second to process what you’re seeing. Steam curls out of the earth like the ground is breathing, blinding white salt stretches to the horizon, ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: ...