Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

When they pulled up the galleries of coral photos, they could identify which bumps and nodes were actually little worm homes. The photos were taken to study the pygmy seahorses that also live among ...

When anglers dropped trawling nets into the Pacific Ocean several miles off the east coast of Australia, they were expecting fish to be lifted back to the surface. Instead, they found a shelled animal ...

The Earth is home to an incredible diversity of bird species, living in practically every habitat, from the open oceans to the arid deserts. In some parts of the world, these animals have adapted and ...

Upon first look of the firefly fossil in 2016, Cai said he thought the insect was a type of beetle in the Elateroidea family — similar to a separate species Cai also helped to identify from ...

Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago, authorities announced Thursday.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a snake. A newly discovered species of a toothy snake in the Western Himalayas has been named in the actor’s honor, according to an “ongoing study” published in the ...

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“It didn't follow the traditional pattern, which is kind of yet another reason why I was finding it really difficult to identify it and name it as abusive,” said the 39-year-old actress.

Our ancient evolutionary cousins on Flores represent a unique lineage who lived during a time multiple human species were spreading to different parts of our planet, and this enigmatic relative of ...