Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences have unveiled a list of all the new animal, plant and fungi species that ...

Scientists have started exploring the history, evolution, and society of arguably one of the world's rarest whales.

In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, worms show no genetic damage despite living in highly radioactive soil, and free-ranging ...

While we hear about movements in the rest of the country like "Keep Austin (Texas) Weird," Connecticut is nicknamed the land ...

Countless engineering solutions are hiding in plain sight. We just have to look more closely at the natural world.

Microscopic worms that live their lives in the highly radioactive environment of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) appear to ...

You may have seen axolotls—an amphibian in the salamander family with a permanent smile and pink, feathery gills—in a pet ...

Their work revealed, for the first time, that spade-toothed whales have tiny vestigial teeth in their upper jaw. Vestigial ...

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries, an expert ...

Spade-toothed whales, a type of beaked whale, were first discovered in 1874 after a jaw bone was found in New Zealand’s ...