Handling venomous snakes requires constant awareness and precise control. Inside a confined space, even minor movements can ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Environmental Protection Agency over its final rule to weaken, and extend until 2035, national standards that limit or eliminate toxic water ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

That's because European Union fisheries officials are among watchdogs encouraging people to eat the prolific lionfish as a ...

"Involuntary parks" transform Earth’s most dangerous and contaminated sites into accidental wildlife sanctuaries.

Juan-Paul 'JP' Kalman thought he was picking up an oyster shell at Balmoral Beach when a venomous blue-ringed octopus wrapped ...

Named for their plump, pink, and rounded bodies, sea pigs are very abundant, but you are unlikely to ever see one, living as ...

Unlike their shelled relatives, which can tuck in and hide from predators and environmental factors, sea slugs are just out there.

Conservation charity Fauna & Flora has released its 2026 Species to Watch list, which spotlights some of the most endangered animals on the planet ...

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...