Beyond their peculiar appearance, they’re unusual as they occupy the entire water column of the staggeringly deep lake, ...

A new study links the diet plan to “multiple aberrations of metabolic parameters”, which… doesn’t sound great.

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Rice’s whale is the only baleen whale species that lives year round in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the continental ...

On a temporary scale, the rings are coming back, but in the (much) longer term they’re probably a beautiful but transient ...

It’s part of our evolution, and it’s something we share with other mammals. It’s been well established that apes – our ...

AMOC stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and it refers to the huge web of ocean currents moving through ...

The lonely whale caught the world's imagination and inevitably it ended up as a Twitter parody account. Slighty less ...

Largetooth sawfish look like a half-fish and half-chainsaw. Although their bodies are similar to a shark's, they are ...

The discovery resolves one major mystery in cosmology, deepens another and heralds the dawn of a new era for telescope ...

Fossil skin like this is invaluable because, for starters, it’s the first time we’ve ever found soft tissues preserved for ...

Fifteen years after launch, JAXA has said goodbye to the spacecraft, our only working probe around Earth's "sister planet".