Orcas, also known as killer whales, are among the most intelligent and social of marine mammals. They live in tight-knit pods ...

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

Dr. Maarten De Brauwer at Curtin University discovered hairy frogfish have fluorescent lures that glow orange under blue ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

UC Davis study of 161 fish species using high-speed video reveals evolutionary trade-off: large teeth prevent mobile jaw development.

Decades of efforts to eradicate invasive smallmouth bass from a midsized Adirondack lake have led to a surprising result: The bass rapidly evolved to grow faster and invest more in early reproduction, ...

Nature has innumerable life-threatening predators who might be smaller in size or may have an innocent-looking appearance. While most people are familiar with lions, wolves, and sharks, the world is ...

Have you ever stared into the golden eyes of a tiger and wondered what secrets linger behind that steady gaze? There’s ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

Fish feed in different parts of the water column, and their bodies and diets are adapted to their feeding strategies. Their ...

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

in what we call a depositional basin. So that's a place where sediment accumulates. and you will never ever turn into a ...