Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have identified a single mechanical ratio that dozens of unrelated sea creatures, from ...

Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home ...

From whale hearts to giraffe tongues, explore how huge and tiny animal body parts really are, using everyday objects as your ...

The aquatic reptile, a superpredator of the mosasaur family, inhabited the seas of what is now the northeast of the country ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very ...

Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington ...

Study of tooth enamel reveals that the Sumerians did not eat fish despite living by the sea, challenging what we thought ...

The Galápagos Islands, located off Ecuador, are famed for giant tortoises and unique wildlife, offering rare encounters with ...

The Marine Mammal Center received multiple reports of a northern elephant seal pup on two different Santa Cruz beaches ...

The sightings were the first reports of the animals in Santa Cruz since an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

Two 10-million-year-old whale fossils have been discovered beneath a beach in Portugal, revealing an ancient lost sea.