A research team of Cal Poly statisticians and marine biologists from UC San Diego have developed a new way to monitor local ...

The cookiecutter shark is one of the strangest predators in the ocean, using glowing camouflage, suction-powered lips, and razor-sharp teeth to carve chunks of flesh from living animals . Unlike most ...

Some scientists have suggested a different idea: T. rex’s arms may have evolved to be smaller as another body part grew larger. The fossil record reveals that arms got shorter as theropod skulls got ...

They are big. They are beautiful. And they are back. The return of the humpback whale to greater numbers than observed in decades is part of a larger revival of marine mammals in the Salish Sea. It is ...

Non-human animals display many unexpected cognitive abilities and forms of intelligence. The story of Mac is an intriguing ...

Life around the ocean surface can appear strangely similar from a distance. A dorsal fin cuts through the water, a dark body ...

Baleen plates serve as whale diaries, preserving years of hormonal data. A new study in the journal PLOS One shows that, with ...

I don’t eat Hostess Ding Dongs, but I will forever defend your right to eat them. I know he isn’t trying to ban the eating of Ding Dongs yet. However, he is clearly courting with the proverbial ...

With the right child-friendly route, having pint-sized passengers needn’t mean driving holidays are out of the question ...

Basking sharks spend their winters around the warm waters of the Azores and then return to Ireland upon the arrival of spring ...

Explore the incredible journeys of animals living in our seas and around our coasts. From molluscs battling across rockpools, ...

Yet here we are, and that’s exactly what happens at Fossil Beach in Westmoreland State Park near Montross, where the Potomac ...