Once hunted to the brink of extinction, beavers are finally making a comeback – and our ecosystems desperately need them.

Quahog clams are known for their longevity. A 220-year-old taken from American waters in 1982 holds the official Guinness Book of World Records oldest animal title. Unofficially, the record belongs to ...

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

Snow, the 17-year-old polar bear who died Labor Day at the Reid Park Zoo, suffered from an undiagnosed heart ailment, a zoo official announced last week at the same time she announced the zoo doesn't ...

Researchers in Sweden and Denmark have for the first time managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from the ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

Scientists working on the Arctic archipelago’s largest island, Spitsbergen, uncovered a 249-million-year-old bonebed on the ...

Learn why curious narwhals are acting like the cats of the sea, bumping and scratching against underwater listening devices.

Climate change and the associated rising temperatures are melting more and more frozen ground in the Arctic. This dissolved ...

Underwater passive acoustic recording is vital for researchers to monitor and study marine animals in their natural ...