An American crocodile that was seen swimming with a spear in its head was also shot and will likely suffer permanent vision ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

New research finds that ocean-dwelling fish entered freshwater environments on several occasions, evolving enhanced hearing abilities in the process. When ancient marine fish transitioned from ...

With its year-round sun and excellent visibility, the waters of the Caribbean offer some of the best scuba diving in the ...

Some days your brain feels like a browser with twenty tabs open and one of them playing music you can’t find. You reach for coffee, skip breakfast, and ...

My grief is still real, my pain is still sharp and the life I lost cannot be restored,” Jeannie Childs, William Childs’ ...

Colorado's wildlife begins to adapt to the coming frigid weather before winter sets in. Learn what Colorado's wildlife does ...

Bottlenose dolphins have a number of unique hunting techniques that are dependent on the dolphins’ location. One technique is called “sponging.” This is when the dolphin places a sponge on its beak to ...

They hunt in a nightmarish way ― grabbing prey as it passes. Once secured with a bite, pythons wrap their bodies around their ...

Summary: A global study of vertebrates reveals that body temperature is the key driver behind brain size evolution. Warm-blooded species like mammals and birds can maintain the energy demands of ...