Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive ...

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

These 20 weird but true animal facts will surprise you.

For years, the story of Easter Island has been told as a grim fable: a small, isolated community cut down its last tree, destroyed its own environment, and collapsed in a kind of prehistoric ...

From highly poisonous frogs to fluffy critters that can turn terrifying when disturbed or threatened, here are the deadliest animals on our planet. You might be surprised by some of ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

Nature can be brutal. But animals also help each other, sometimes in ways unimaginable to the human observers. For instance, ...

When the two-lane Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, it was hailed as a “triumph of structural engineering.” Locals quickly gave it another name—Galloping Gertie—after noticing how the ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest cephalopod genome sequenced to ...