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 ...

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.

The Earth has seen some truly gigantic snakes throughout its history, and these creatures were so massive and powerful that ...

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, ...

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 ...

A rare sighting of a dugong calf in Alor, Indonesia, has renewed focus on the health of the region’s seagrass ecosystem and the species’ fragile future. Conservationists say the presence of multiple ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key habitat for other sealife Sea otters use their agile, grippy forepaws to ...