When most people think of venomous creatures, snakes, spiders, and insects spring to mind. Admittedly, those are the most ...

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine ...

Chris Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford Medicine, found himself thinking about cats. Not just any cats, but the loud, lovable, ...

A study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, uncovers how flexibility made ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted ...

A rumor has circulated online since 2018 claiming that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push ...

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

A rumor that has circulated online since 2018 claims that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push marine biologist Nan Hauser around while she was underwater, seemingly to ...

But the half-inch predator does punch surprisingly far above its weight. According to a 2023 study, for example, the noble ...

A few tiny molecular tweaks may explain why naked mole-rats live nearly ten times longer than similar species. Researchers ...