Whenever an animal species drops into the single digits, every risk to them matters. While not necessarily a common ...

A video taken by a tourist shows the first documented instance of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz, scientists say. It came ...

For decades, scientists have studied the DNA of long-extinct animals found frozen in permafrost. However, researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden, have just completed a ...

The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of ...

If you come across a rattlesnake in Michigan, it’s an eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus), the only venomous snake in the state. They’re relatively small for rattlers, averaging two to three feet ...

In the icy waters of Alaska's Bristol Bay, a new study reveals how a small population of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas ...

Signs of impending doom are all around, especially as a potential time change for the "Doomsday Clock" looming. See other signs of impending doom.

A new study reveals allergy risks from fish depend not just on species but also on the size of the fish and which part you ...

In Minnesota’s Rice Lake, bigmouth buffalo fish—some up to 127 years old—are the world’s longest-lived freshwater fish, aging so slowly they show “negligible senescence.” What happened after the ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is proposing boat speed changes in manatee zones along the Indian River Lagoon. Check out where.

Freshwater browning is stunting fish growth of some species, shrinking populations of others and changing the composition of ...