Sea stars may look like they're cuddling, but these underwater gatherings serve surprising survival and reproductive purposes ...

Efforts to create plantings that welcome wildlife — birds, snakes, frogs, insects — can backfire. You can do better. Start by turning off the outdoor lights.

Every winter, off the coast of South Australia, thousands of giant cuttlefish gather for the showdown of a lifetime. In an ...

One of the few animals able to photosynthesize, this tiny invertebrate acquires chloroplasts by munching on Avrainvillea, a ...

Polar bears rely on Arctic sea ice to hunt, mate, and survive. Rapid melting threatens their entire way of life and future ...

Gall crabs are tiny, and yet these crustaceans have evolved fluorescence to help them be concealed within hideouts they have ...

How do scientists monitor the populations of the threatened California red-legged frog? With careful listening and a little ...

The old idiom of being a fish out of water is never a positive thing. Instead, it paints a picture of being uncomfortable or awkward. This is how most fish feel when they are removed from their ...

Whale sharks somehow manage to also be very private: Scientists don’t know where they mate, and they’ve never observed it before.

Cameron Perry, a research scientist at the Georgia Aquarium, has been working with colleagues to attach camera tags to investigate what the whale sharks are doing.

Suspected whale shark mating behavior has also been reported in Australia and the sharks also gather in places like Mexico, the Arabian Sea and the Maldives, but that seems to amount to male ...