Sam But sharks’ fearsome reputation is not based on facts: most attacks on humans are cases of mistaken identity, where the ...

Tropic Death – 10 blistering, astonishing stories about racist, exploitative outrages in Caribbean ‘paradises’ – won him a Guggenheim award. Why did this star of the Harlem Renaissance die such a sad ...

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 ...

Understanding how these animals manage to survive for centuries offers us a humbling look at our own place in the ecosystem.

Cocaine pollution has sharks and salmon off the rails — and it’s not their fault. “Party" pollution refers to drugs entering aquatic ecosystems after human use, exposing fish to their effects—a ...

It's not surprising to see high levels of "forever chemicals" in cities and industrial areas. But PFAS has made its way to ...

A new type of long-necked plant-eating dinosaur—the largest ever found in Southeast Asia—has been revealed in a study led by researchers at University College London (UCL), Mahasarakham University, ...

Two witnesses reported a swimmer likely encountered a shark before she went missing offshore near Lovers Point around noon Sunday. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the first report came from a ...

Not long before an asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the dinosaurs, a long-necked dinosaur the size of nine ...

Scientists still have much left to learn about the creatures, even as hundreds of thousands of them wash ashore.

The flesh-eating parasite, the New World screwworm, was detected this month in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, just 90 miles away from the U.S. border. As of last year, the insect was still 400 miles ...