A growing king penguin colony in southern Chile is challenging long-held assumptions about where the species can successfully ...

Maxing out at around 200 tons, the blue whale is not only the largest animal on the planet, it is also the largest animal ...

When most people imagine scientists discovering new species, they probably still picture an expedition into the unknown. A ...

Research led by Professor Michelle LaRue from the School of Earth and Environment at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University ...

If you've driven by a local river or lake recently, your car is probably covered in the corpses of these swarming pests.

Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

There are multiple species to be seen, including southern right whales along with much rarer sightings of Bryde's whales, ...

Scientists have uncovered a fish-hunting raptor from Patagonia that may have stalked prey like a giant prehistoric heron.

As humanity settles new locations on and off the Earth, today's knowledge is inadequate for understanding and responding to ...

Echinoderms are those strange, sometimes slimy or spiky creatures that live on the ocean floor—think sea cucumbers, sea ...

For decades, raptors have been seen as fast, fierce predators racing after prey. Movies helped make that image famous, but fossils continue to show that dinosaurs were often more diverse than we once ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...