New experimental research shows that muscle metabolic activity may be an important factor in the incredible longevity of the world's oldest living vertebrate species—the Greenland shark. These finding...

by Matthew Norton The sheer variety of animals in the ocean, from the size and shape of their bodies to the intricacies of their inner workings, never ceases to amaze me. But it also makes it impos…

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The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice

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From bilateral to pentaradial, the starfish took a basic body plan and ran.

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The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth—things like marine iguanas and giant tortoises. In a new paper in t...

New research suggests mangroves remove 960,000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5.5 million tons annually if conditions were optimal for the p...

Celebrate National Oyster Day by learning about the most bizarre oyster specimens in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection

The Kraken Wakes.

The first application of a proposed technique to study X-ray sources’ fluctuations could be a big breakthrough for astronomy, but has got surprisingly little pre-publicity.

A string of fur seal attacks on surfers and beachgoers in Cape Town has been linked to an outbreak of rabies, with 11 seals testing positive for the virus so far.

Danish officials plan to tow the body out to sea. No one wants a repeat of the infamous exploding whale incident of 1970.

Scientists spotted the enigmatic creatures in 2019 and again in 2024, marking the first times they've been observed alive in the wild. The sightings drastically expand the animals' known geographic an...