Moon Valley, located within Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the most extreme and arid landscapes on the planet. Shaped over ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

History is full of strange tales of tentacled sea beasts ravaging ships and terrifying sailors on the high seas. It’s easy to ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-old mystery with the first-ever live encounter of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Alexander the Great dived into the unknown, facing giant crabs, pearls, and mysterious depths in a legendary underwater ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

“A rare Mola mola (ocean sunfish) washed up on our shore at Cardiff State Beach today,” San Diego State Lifeguards stated ...

A list of animated cartoon series that kids who are obsessed with animals can watch to learn about ecosystems, animals and ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...