When animals have a slow metabolic rate, they do not age but rather have a prolonged life. Resistance to diseases and genetics are also factors that can contribute to the longevity of an animal.

Warner told the LA Times that climate change, driven by human burning of fossil fuels, is making toxic algal blooms more ...

As of Monday, the park has welcomed about 9,000 guests to the jellyfish experience since it opened, said SeaWorld San Diego ...

Our family recently went on a week-long vacation to Panama City, Panama. We really had no idea what to expect when visiting ...

Cannon Beach welcomes visitors with one of the most famous views in Oregon. Haystack Rock rises from the ocean like something ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Millions of years ago, a group of adventurous iguanas, probably from Mexico, crossed the Pacific Ocean to Fiji on giant rafts of vegetation.

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation ... to be other lizard groups. Other animals, such as trapdoor spiders, have ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division (USACE POD) Commanding General, Brigadier General Joseph “Clete” Goetz II, completed his week-long tour of the USACE Japan Engineer District ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection technique. The team are performing ultra-sensitive optical ...