Scientists have identified a large slab of cold oceanic lithosphere¹ dipping far beneath China.² The newly imaged plate is presumably...

A recent study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, reports on the recurring problem of humpback whales colliding with large estuary-trafficking...

Disaster sometimes strikes suddenly, like an enormous petroleum accident off the coast of Russia!^1,2 On May 29, 2020, twenty thousand tons...

One of the most famous living fossils is back in the news. The coelacanth is an endangered deep-sea fish. Its fins fit to unique, wrist-like bones, and...

About 1,600 years ago, salt miners in Iran apparently left their lamb lunch down the shaft. Their loss became scientists' gain. The now-mummified sheep...

For centuries, mercury has been used in thermometers for reading our body temperatures, but now we measure mercury levels to see if seafood is safe to...

Estonia’s peaceful outbreak from the former Soviet Union is famously known as the “Singing Revolution”¹—but its Green...

In May, hundreds of salmon fry are experiencing their own version of “live-streaming,” according to a report from Maine Audubon’s Molly...

Once again, results are better when aquaculture imitates the natural life cycle of Atlantic salmon.^1,2 In other words, the closer fish farmers...

Biofluorescence is a phenomenon in which creatures—plant or animal—absorb light at a certain wavelength and release or emit it at a different...

Most of us are familiar with the incredible ability of different animal groups to migrate (such as birds).^1,2 But what about invertebrates? Recently,...

The latter days of July are very busy for many pollinators.¹ These include birds, bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, bats, and more.^1-3 Pollination...

Dogs don’t read the words on a page. Neither did Coco, the famous gorilla that learned to communicate using simple hand signs. So what affords humans...

We are all familiar with vocalizations in the animal world. For example, dogs bark, birds sing, frogs croak, and whales send forth their own distinct...

The life of a Maine lobster is mostly a matter of crawling around on muddy continental shelf seafloors, not far from a coastline. Benthic scavenging is...

A group of birds known as Darwin’s finches (genus Geospiza) lives in the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean 600 miles west of Ecuador....

While you’re reading this, hold your breath. What is now happening is your blood is delivering the last of oxygenated blood cells to your tissues...

Creationists have long speculated about the earth’s environment prior to the global Flood—conditions which may have contributed to the long...

Recently, a fossil believed to be a juvenile duck-billed dinosaur was found in a hillside in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada. The scientists discovered...

Entomologists, biologists who study insects, continue to uncover amazing discoveries regarding the intellect of bees^1,2 Now, biologists...

Wild imagination abounds in the new Jurassic World: Dominion movie. Even a fully-feathered dinosaur is shown swimming below the ice at one point. But this...