Mark Berte is the Executive Director of the Alabama Coastal Foundation. He talks with Quick-Fire Quips host Baillee Majors ...

Fort Myers Beach Marine and Environmental Resources Task Force member Rob Howell is sounding the alarm of what he believes is ...

One spring, or manantial, is fed by groundwater that flows from a small orifice in the rock to create the larger pool. It is ...

After years below ground, a cicada bursts from its exoskeleton in this remarkable video showing nature’s power to transform.

Discover China’s most breathtaking opera house, a modern architectural wonder inspired by the shape of a giant seashell.

Tiny, elusive, and tough as nails – the pink fairy armadillo is one of the strangest mammals on Earth. In this video, we dig into what makes this underground dweller so unique, from its armor-like ...

Unlike the hard-shelled eggs of birds, platypus eggs have a soft, pliable shell more similar to reptile eggs. Before laying her eggs, the female platypus constructs an elaborate underground burrow up ...

Was the First Mammal to Live on Earth the Morganucodon or Brasilodon? Experts Still Debate Learn more about Morganucodon and Brasilodon, the two species that may have given life to the mammals we know ...

In almost all mammals, male sex-determination occurs via the SRY gene on the male Y chromosome. Monotremes have evolved a totally different sex chromosome system that lacks the SRY gene.

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

It's time for another edition of the viral March Mammal Madness, which pits 64 animals against each other in hypothetical "battles," bracket-style.

Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study published March 13 in the journal Science.