The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

Australia has closed dozens of beaches and urged people to stay out of the ocean after a fourth shark attack was reported ...

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When a Monterey County woman died in a shark attack off Pacific Grove in late December, it was the 17th such fatality in 75 years off the coast of California.

The world’s deadliest kind of asbestos – crocidolite – was mined in this town from the 1930s to the 1960s. Photos of workers ...

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Iron Chef usually surprises its audience with technical mastery and jaw-dropping food, but this incident was described as a ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...

There wasn’t much Aris Adrianto felt he could do when the gold miners’ heavy vehicles broke into Bukit Gajah Berani, here in this remote pocket of Sumatra’s Merangin district. “They just kept going, ...

Conservation charity Fauna & Flora has released its 2026 Species to Watch list, which spotlights some of the most endangered animals on the planet ...

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