The distance an elephant can cover in the water is pretty staggering. A study in the Journal of Biogeography cites an account from 1856 in which an African elephant was forced to swim for 48 ...

In the clear waters surrounding Apo Island, sea turtles move freely through coral reefs shaped by decades of protection. This video documents a quiet underwater encounter in one of Southeast Asia’s ...

The internet is obsessed with a dog who has befriended local wildlife in his home by the sea. Ash the poodle lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, with his owner Meredith, 53. The seaside town is ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — To kick off National Water Safety Month, St. Petersburg Fire Rescue, in partnership with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, hosted a free water safety event. “Not every city ...

The State Department has said the United States stands with the Philippines after the treaty ally's fishing boats were hit with water cannons by Chinese forces in the South China Sea last week, as ...

A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline data, tracking natural changes and assessing the impacts of a polymetallic ...

Deserts reward preparation. Across the world, desert animals have developed ingenious and resourceful ways to conserve every drop of water they receive. Here's a look at ten animals that play the long ...

A new study says an amount of plastic “smaller than you might think” in the guts of seabirds and aquatic animals can be fatal, the first time that researchers say they’ve quantified how much can be ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...