In 2019, scientists rediscovered a species of miniature deer long lost to science within the dry coastal forests of southern ...

Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's coastal waters, a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...

Climate change is pushing crocodiles outside their comfort zone, and there may be a limit to how much their natural cooling ...

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides the first empirical evidence that ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes.

Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with few visible landmarks. Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, ...

Scientists discover turtles use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favorite spots, proving animals can ...

Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...