European coastal areas are under increasing pressure. Researchers are investigating ways to reverse this trend and help ...

It was breakfast time at Nairobi’s Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and on our first full day in Kenya, my family and I were ...

Dive beneath the waves of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, where sea otters play, humpback whales migrate, and ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Sharks have a branding problem. For many people, the word alone conjures images of horror: sleek predators stalking through ...

We tend to think of animals as short-lived, especially when we compare their lifespans to human lifespans. But some species ...

Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have uncovered an array of remarkable finds off the coast of Argentina, including ...

Scientists have documented elephants breaking chains to flee inland and hibernating snakes emerging in winter before major earthquakes, yet most of us dismiss our pets' strange behavior as mere quirks ...

Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how ...

On Wednesday, SeaWorld staff, volunteers and FWC officers delivered Stipes and her calf, a male that SeaWorld biologists named Argyle, to a boat ramp at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Key ...

Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases like Stony Coral Tissue Loss (SCTLD). Since the 1970s, more than half of the ...

The research team revealed that the coral generates rhythmic opening and closing movements of the tentacles surrounding its mouth through a distributed neural pacemaker system. In other words, the ...