One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their hunting grounds are shrinking, food is becoming harder to find, and their ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

Irrawaddy dolphins are rapidly disappearing across Asia. Scientists warn that fishing nets, pollution and habitat loss are ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the coast of Brevard near Canova Park on Wednesday. There ...

This was about to be the case on the Mexican island of Clarion, where several species – including sheep, pigs, and rabbits – ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...