Long before modern whales ruled the oceans, there was a prehistoric predator unlike any other - Livyatan melvillei. In this ...

In the warm, cobalt waters just off the coast of Dominica —a mountainous Caribbean island often called the "Nature Island"—a ...

The 44-foot, 77,000-pound male sperm whale died Monday on Venice Beach after becoming beached on a sandbar over the weekend. Crews used two boats, a rope and a crane to move the whale off the shore.

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

At Harvard University, researchers at “Project CETI” are using artificial intelligence and robotics technology to understand ...

Sound moves about 4.5 times faster in the water than in the air. In the water, sound generally moves at 0.93 miles per second. In the air, that drops to only 0.21 miles per second. Water is also ...