Diving beetles have evolved a specialized way to breathe underwater using pockets of trapped air. New footage shows how these ...

Amber can be a veritable treasure trove of ancient animals and insects, but it most commonly captures creatures that lived in forests – understandable, given the stuff starts life as tree sap. But now ...

How humans evolved from the very first animals over the last 600 million years is an endlessly fascinating question. When piecing together the many steps leading from our first simple animal ancestor ...

Bioluminescence is one of nature’s most striking adaptations. Here are 7 insects that have evolved the ability to emit light for survival, communication, and hunting.

A great deal of romance attaches these days to the “Age of Sail”, the period between the 15th and 19th centuries when wooden sailing ships reached their technological apogee. Historians, however, have ...

Here's what happens: The plankton eat algae that contains the acid, and then the fish eat the plankton, and the sea lions eat the fish — one thing surviving off another, passing on the toxic acid.

The Seattle urban waterfront is unkind to baby salmon. As millions of small fish make their way north from the Duwamish River, they hug a vertical concrete wall that provides limited food and shelter.