Years ago, as a student at the University of the Ryukyus in in Okinawa, Japan, Ai Takahata was researching the color patterns ...

These leathery turtles spend most of their lives buried motionless in river mud, but burst into action to catch their ...

Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen ...

As climate change bears down on Antarctica, understanding why some penguins end up meandering so far from their natural ...

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...

The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.