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

At first glance, dolphins, sharks, and whales all cut similar figures as they glide through the ocean: sleek fins, smooth ...

If humans had the same arm proportions as a T. rex, a 6-foot-tall person would have arms about 11 inches long.

He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary ...

The beak was barely the size of a human fist, but the animal it belonged to may have stretched longer than a humpback whale.

The ocean moves by rules that seem to have been taken from science fiction. You snap your claw It briefly creates heat near ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

Scientists have presented work examining the circumstances surrounding the whale deaths off the coast of New Jersey in the winter of 2022-23, which prompted concern that survey work in the area ...

Most of what scientists know about face development comes from studies in bony vertebrates such as mice, chickens, and zebrafish. However, their evolutionary counterparts, cartilaginous fishes, have ...

Amid protests, geopolitical tensions and the contradictions of the Biennale’s own structure, the most compelling pavilions ...

While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence in lizards and ...

The chilling tale of the 1845 Franklin expedition has captivated historians for nearly two centuries, and now, cutting-edge science is peeling back the ice to reveal new secrets. Using advanced DNA ...