Less than 100 miles from Taipei, Japan's westernmost island, Yonaguni, has rapidly militarized amid growing tensions between ...

A community of rare fish enthusiasts collects endangered species of freshwater fish from lakes and springs around the world, ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a ...

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

For decades, scientists were baffled by why thorny skates in the North Atlantic came in two distinct sizes. Despite extensive ...

ISHIGAKI, Okinawa Prefecture--When underwater photographer ... He said he has seen seaweed and coral reefs dwindle and other local species disappear at most of the places he visited.

In a river of southern Vietnam, a 3-foot-long creature with “sharp” teeth swam through the murky water — or tried to, at least. Something closed around the wrinkly animal and pulled it toward the ...

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the pandemic. We asked students how their lives are different today because of it. By The Learning Network President Trump abruptly stopped providing ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...