including four new mammals and a bizarre “blob-headed” fish that was already well-known to local people. The findings came from a 38-day expedition conducted in 2022 by Conservation ...

It is concerning if they die off as it means the sea – which we rely on for many things – is no longer healthy, says an ...

When the first fish evolved, they might have repurposed the gill-forming genes from these ancient creatures. The bendy cartilage in mammals’ outer ears today, then, may be “the last remnant of ...

This is exactly what Thiruppathy and colleagues did in a tour-de-force comparative genomic study that included a fish, an amphibian, a reptile, a mammal and ... cells (also known as chondrocytes ...

Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...

FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years since the mammal was discovered.

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field ...

Coyotes are preying on baby seals. Scientists used cameras to confirm this behavior. Seals may change their habits to avoid ...

That’s mostly good for wildlife and fish, but less than ideal for winter ... Great gray owls generally move down when rodents and other small mammals become less abundant farther north.

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that ...