Around 115 million years ago, northern Australia’s seas hosted a colossal shark that rewrites what we thought we knew about ...

A rare, prehistoric find on the South Carolina coast baffled beach goers this week. Here’s what to know about the creature.

In 2017, a new global treaty was meant to bring mercury pollution under control. But three decades of data from UK harbor ...

Dunkleosteus belonged to a group of ancient, armoured fish known as the placoderms. These fish lived during the Silurian and the Devonian periods - between 440 and 359 million years ago - and they ...

Abstract: The classification of marine mammal calls is of enormous significance for the protection of marine mammals. Acoustic methods are the most effective tools for studying and monitoring marine ...

Tucked away on Florida’s Nature Coast lies Crystal River Preserve State Park, a 27,500-acre slice of paradise that somehow remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets.

Across America, a handful of extraordinary national parks give travelers the rare chance to see endangered animals thriving ...

The European bison, the żubr (Bison bonasus) at left, is the largest native herbivore in Europe. Averaging approximately 1,400 pounds, they are slighter than their American cousin (Bison bison) at ...

Leedsichthys also sported 40,000 needle-like teeth. Yet for its prodigious size and toothiness, it was a gentle giant, like today’s (mammalian) whales. It's believed to have feasted on plankton, ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown species of extinct shark deep within the labyrinth of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky — the world’s longest known cave system. The species, named Macadens ...

View of a dolphin in the Dolphin Harbor, at the Miami Seaquarium, in Virginia Key, which closed on Oct. 12, 2025, after 70 years in business. Pedro Portal [email protected] For 70 years, ...

For 70 years, dolphins, sea lions and the late orca Lolita have been the stars at the Miami Seaquarium, their performances putting the theme park on the map for tourists and locals. Now the Seaquarium ...