When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

Experts explain how invasive pythons and other reptiles in South Florida react to freezing temperatures — and why cold ...

Even the tiniest discoveries can have outsized significance, a worm in a salty lake hints at life yet to be found.

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

More than a billion cases of foodborne diseases, such as norovirus infections and salmonellosis, are recorded in Africa each ...

Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where water disappears twice a day.

The largest animal that has ever lived is not a dinosaur from Yore but a living mammal that still crosses our oceans. The ...

Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

A team of scientists has overcome a major challenge in predicting how Antarctic life will fare under future climate scenarios ...

Twenty-four starving wild horses were evacuated from deep snow near Mammoth Lakes, though one died and three were euthanized.

What do "I Got Rhythm," "The Maltese Falcon," and "The Little Engine That Could" have in common? They all went into the ...