A minke whale washed up on Rocky Neck this weekend and the Seacoast Science Center Marine Mammal Rescue team is orchestrating efforts to perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy.

Shedd Aquarium gave a closer look at how its resident and new rescue beluga whales are cared for on Friday as their staff and ...

Currently, the largest dinosaur known is Argentinosaurus, which likely measured up to 35 meters (115 feet) long and weighed ...

The bootlace worm is a thread-thin marine ribbon worm found along the coasts of Britain and northern Europe, and it holds a ...

A rare squid was spotted for the first time ever in the northeast Pacific Ocean — one of only a handful of sightings of the ...

Narwhals have nature's only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three meters (10 feet) long, so strange they were sold as ...

Helen Ahpornsiri turns pressed plants into beautifully lifelike animals ...

Beneath the Arctic Ocean's frozen surface, a predator unknown to most people holds the same ecological power as the polar bear, and scientists say it forces a complete rethink of how ocean food webs ...

Biologist Vittorio Baglione spent years attaching tiny microphones to the tail feathers of 43 carrion crows. In 2018 he and research partner ...