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A wildlife photographer has captured what are believed to be the first underwater images of the rare, elusive Ross seal.

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Scientists have finally solved a decades-old mystery with the first-ever live encounter of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

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Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that ...

A new study from the multidisciplinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University found that jellyfish and sea anemones ...

Plastic drifts across the Pacific in no particular hurry. Some pieces have been moving for years, thinning and softening as ...