A younger crowd is flocking to a hobby once dominated by retirees—and transforming it along the way.

Thousands of small, silver fish will wash up on California beaches to perform a strange and wondrous mating ritual.

A wasting disease that surged during the intense 2013-2016 Pacific marine heatwave known as the Blob decimated numerous species of sea stars and triggered the collapse of vast coastal kelp forests fro...

DNA study reveals crocs that lived in the Seychelles represented the westernmost population of saltwater crocodiles, having swam at least 1,800 miles to reach the island.

As Democratic minority leader for the Senate Agriculture Committee, Klobuchar has been a vocal opponent to USDA reorganization plans and cuts to food assistance.

When heat waves bleach reefs, do dead coral skeletons help or hinder recovery?

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave might shed light on when early humans migrated to Australia

Almost two years after reintroduction began, wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders.

The wholesale club recently found itself in a pinch after scammers stole a truck carrying lobster meat that was headed to its stores.

The crucial reef-building corals were decimated by a marine heat wave in the Florida Keys. Can advances in restoration help them recover?

In the United States, efforts to save a beloved species face pushback from a surprising foe: gun rights advocates.

Despite their name, Crabeater Seals eat primarily krill. They have specialised teeth for filtering their prey. These two remind me of my Labrador... Antarctica expedition 2025

A coyote was trapped and killed at the Arboretum near UW after two close encounters with people. Seattle Parks advises how to keep yourself and coyotes safe.

Critters have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way

Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations worldwide, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat.

Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...

After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

Congress is working on a proposal that would gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act and erase legal protections for dolphins, otters, seals and whales.

The Dragon Bravo wildfire in Arizona grew rapidly over the past weekend, destroying the historic Grand Canyon Lodge and dozens of other structures along the canyon’s North Rim.

The critically endangered Asian cheetah, now nearly extinct with only 17 left in the wild, clings to survival in Iran’s deserts amid habitat loss, human encroachment and geopolitical challenges

It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. But how bad will it get?