Dwindling natural habitats are causing a significant decline in certain seahorse species. To bolster populations, researchers in Australia are building seahorse hotels and leaving the lights on.

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

Scientists examined a fossilized plesiosaur’s soft tissue, revealing a unique mix of smooth and scaly skin. Smooth skin ...

Unlike most waterfowl today, the skull preserves traces of powerful jaw muscles useful for overcoming water resistance while diving to snap up fish. These skull features ... now-extinct species with ...

Rapid FISH studies using probes specific for the X (DX1 ... the degree of virilisation of the internal genital tracts is defined by Prader stages I–V (fig 2). The anatomy of the vagina or a urogenital ...

Deputies said they identified the fish as a Mola Mola, also known as an ocean sunfish. The Mola Mola are the heaviest of all the bony fish, with large specimens reaching 14 feet vertically ...