The season presents an ideal opportunity to discover experiences that are fleeting, immersive, and uniquely monsoon-dependent ...

The glow in Lough Hyne comes courtesy of dinoflagellates (tiny, single-celled plankton) floating near the surface of the water. When disturbed, they emit a flash of light, usually bluish green, in ...

Scientists found a sea creature with “prickles” on its “eyeball skin” off the coast of Japan and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Thousands of feet down in ...

Experts urge the importance in knowing the crucial role invasive species play in areas like the economy, ecology, human health and recreation.

Researchers in Zimbabwe identified two new catfish species, the rough skin and dwarf suckermouth, in highland rivers like the Buzi and Pungwe river systems.

U.S. to add pangolins, ‘most heavily trafficked mammal,’ to endangered list The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding seven species of pangolin, which are sold for their scales and ...

For nearly two centuries, the king cobra was considered a single species, Ophiophagus hannah. However, recent genetic and morphological research has revealed that it is actually four distinct ...

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

The Mount Fuji-shaped anemone, Discoactis tritentaculata, was found along Japan’s coast, revealing a rare new genus, species, and family of sea anemone.

Pangolins — strangely adorable, scale-covered creatures believed to be the most heavily trafficked mammal in the world — should receive protection under the Endangered Species Act, federal ...

Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – also known as the Portuguese man o’ war – has now been revealed ...