Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

Bringing extinct animals back sounds like science fiction, but it’s becoming real science. Companies like Colossal want to revive species like the dodo and woolly mammoth using cloning and ...

Human activity is making the underwater world increasingly noisy. Ph.D. candidate Fien Demuynck researched how wind farms affect fish and how to minimize any negative impact. "We don't want animals to ...

Marine life researchers are tracking a mysterious pod of orcas recently spotted moving through the Salish Sea.

In its efforts to rehabilitate dozens of sea turtles, the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital has given the creatures with font-inspired names ahead of their anticipated summertime release back ...

A global study finds that everyday boat traffic can disrupt ocean animals like whales, sharks, and sea turtles - even without collisions.

The Audubon Aquarium Rescue Team released 27 Kemp’s ridley sea turtles and two green sea turtles into the sound from Biloxi ...

In a world first, scientists that discovered a new type of chiton turned to social media crowdsourcing to come up with the ...

As wildlife tourism grows, scientists are asking a bigger question: can we bring people closer to nature without reshaping the ecosystems they came to see?

A baby cat is a kitten. A baby bear is a cub. Simple. But once you look beyond the usual animals, things get interesting fast. Some baby animal names sound made up, and a few are even more charming ...

The continued warming of ocean waters threatens marine life, a new study demonstrates. According to the Guardian, new research on the effects of rising sea temperatures found that the warming of the ...