Prehistoric sharks appeared hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs and quickly became dominant marine predators. This ...

Academy researchers identified 72 species new to science in 2025, including the newly recognized Galápagos lava heron, a shy ...

When oxygen disappears, most fish suffocate. This one ferments its own metabolism and waits months for spring beneath frozen ...

From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but not in the fundamental shape of their response to heat. Researchers at Tri ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

Meet the walking shark, a species of shark that can walk on land, survive low oxygen environments, and reproduce without ...

In Norway, the Havila Polaris is sailing on liquefied biogas and battery power, making it the world’s first climate-neutral ...

On a Bahamian island, in a landlocked lagoon, the planet’s densest collection of seahorses is offering scientists new ...

The concentration of chemical substances in the food chain is problematic, especially as it also affects humans. "Concentrations can build up massively in the human body. And whether a substance is ...