With an estimated 20,000 whales dying from ship strikes each year, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

Ivan, 25, from Serbia, was scuba diving in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt when he spotted a majestic whale shark swimming ...

Scientists have spotted a deep-sea “ghost” white shark with a rare genetic disorder, shedding light on how such abnormalities ...

A massive fish has "pinged" off the New Jersey coast, according to the research organization that tagged it years ago. The tracking tag placed on Scot, a 1,600-pound great white shark, triggered a ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

A new piranha species was discovered in the Amazon which resembles the fiery eye symbol for the villain Sauron from “The Lord of the Rings” ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats ...

Zoos in the United States are home to some of the largest and most impressive collections of wild animals in the world. They serve the dual purpose of letting kids and adults view the animals while ...

The world's great white sharks are divided into three genetically distinct lineages, each facing unique conservation ...

A ghostly white angular roughshark found near Sazan Island, Albania, is the first example of leucism ever recorded in the ...

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading ...