With no land to rest on and the seabed miles below, migrating elephant seals use slowly drifting dives to catch a few Zs in the ocean depths, a new study says.
Along the coast of Abu Dhabi, development is spilling into the sea, smothering the sea grass beds that nourish rare marine mammals called dugongs. Video.
Its skin pale and rubbery and its organs swollen with gas, an "alien" discovered in a Panama creek has now been identified by veterinarians as a common three-toed sloth.
All it takes is a sprinkle of salt to jump-start animal life on the Amazon forest floor—which, for better or worse, speeds up the carbon cycle, a new study says.
Hyper-real animation—think movies like The Polar Express or Beowulf—can get too realistic for comfort, psychologists say. And according to a new study, monkeys might agree.
From AquaPenguin to Charlie the Robo-Tuna, underwater robots are going wild as scientists find nature has often already conquered their engineering challenges.
"Absolutely sensational" new pictures are rare proof that the world's largest toothed whales feed on elusive giant squid. And if researchers are right, the photos may also show a baby whale's hunting lessons.
Researchers may have found a way to induce molting in blue crabs, which could increase the availability of soft-shell crabs, considered a delicacy. Video.
Coated with a foamy slime, hundreds of seabirds are washing up on the shores of the U.S. Pacific Northwest as an explosion in algae fills the ocean, experts say.
At Halloween, pause to remember the animal "undead"—before they remember you. From "resurrected" spiders to mind-controlled ants to reanimated frozen frogs, some wildlife is wild "dead" too.
Wild dromedary camels, brought to Australia in the mid-19th century to help explore and develop the outback, were left to breed and survive on their own. Now they number a million in the wild and have become pests, officials say. Video.
Nearly as long as two buses, a blue whale washed ashore this week in California. The apparent victim of a ship collision, the beached whale is seen as an "amazing" research opportunity.
Bringing new meaning to the phrase "see you later, alligator," a new study suggests that female American alligators frequently return to their previous sexual partners.
