Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to ...

Declaring a national emergency is one of the few ways an administration can bypass the Endangered Species Act.

Few people have been lucky enough to see a whale birth, with the last one witnessed decades ago. Now, two major papers ...

A Bermuda petrel, or Cahow, on Nonsuch Island – credit, Cahow Recovery Project. Though an event neither singular nor inaugural, the hatching of an endangered seabird and nationa ...

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...

Human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years, at least as early as Greek mythology. But it wasn’t ...

Cetaceans can be split into two main types: baleen whales (which have a sieve-like structure within their mouth to catch tiny ...

The Archipelagos Institute has released footage of Risso’s dolphins, one of the least understood and most elusive cetacean ...

WASHINGTON -- The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it's usually bad news for species that depend on each other -- like flowers blooming too early and ...

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