The start of the March box office brought some much-needed good news for one studio and a hard fall for another that had been flying high over the past year. For the first time in nine years, an ...

Some wasps and frogs evolved similar chemicals that cause pain in predators, even though the species are not closely related.

DNA is revealing that many animals once thought to be a single species may actually be several hidden ones. But research on ...

More than 40% of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and hippopotamuses, have been deliberately introduced outside their natural ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

What started as a routine cleaning job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for Jennifer Dowker, a boat captain and scuba instructor in Cheboygan, Michigan. While cleaning the hull of her ...

The volcanic archipelago, a UK dependent territory 2,400km west of Cape Town, with a population of fewer than 300, has designated nearly 700,000km² of sovereign waters (about three times the land area ...