Explore seven jelly creatures found off the Oregon coast, from Velella velella and moon jellies to giant lion’s mane, with graphics showing size, stings and other key facts.

Flight is one of the rarest and most transformative adaptations in the history of life, evolving independently in insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats. The ability to take to the air reshaped ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive track the physical breakdown that happens when the body runs out of food and the dangerous "refeeding syndrome" that can occur once you eat again. Donald ...

He’d been observing the colony in the Espíritu Santo Marine Park when he noticed an unusual – and somewhat chilling – behaviour. “A sea lion was abusing and mauling a beautiful black guineafowl ...

Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge. The dolphin isn’t playing; it’s using the sponge as a diving mask: a clear ...

The ocean is home to a vast array of different animals, each with its own traits. These include different forms of mating, such as parasitic mating. Parasitic mating occurs when the male physically ...

Before this week, when Long Island nudged above freezing for several straight days, temperatures had lingered at or below 32 degrees for 16 of the previous 17 days. Waterways froze. Spring’s budding ...