Scientists in Japan confirmed a new “Milky Way” jellyfish species, discovered in coastal waters and formally named after its ...

Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might ...

These 20 animals are so strange they look like science fiction creations, but they’re completely real. Nature is far more bizarre than you think.

Dozens of measures are on the table for the Jackson Herd, and another handful for the Pinedale Herd as part of a long-term effort to keep elk populations healthy in the face of an unprecedented ...

Credit: Disney/Pixar “It’s hard to be mad when you feel like you’re part of something big.” Those are the wise words the ...

Meet Andie Carrillo, zoology preparator with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and a STEM mentor for Girls & Science, who says her passion for working with wildlife began at an early age.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The ...

The crystal chimp study, published on Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, was an attempt to understand what about the shimmering minerals is so attractive to the apes’ closest cousins, ...

In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging ...

In experiments, black soldier fly larvae ate spoiled food, sewage sludge or livestock manure, and removed most human-pathogenic viruses.

Natural history museums contain an astonishing snapshot of the planet's biodiversity. Using this information to better ...