Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle—also known ...

Several species, once on the brink of extinction, are making remarkable comebacks due to dedicated conservation efforts.

Case in point is my fondness for Ginkgo trees, the oldest living tree species in the world.  Back in my university days I ...

New footage from Hawaiian waters shows something that should be impossible: unlikely companions sharing dinner without any ...

Tanuki are popular characters in Japanese folklore and real-life animals, but what in the world are they, exactly?

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

While you might not spot them in backyards as often as was once the case, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is offering a few ...

How a 'weird group of boronias' pollinate has puzzled botanists for decades. Now the mystery has finally been solved.

Unusually high mortality for gray whales along the coast has researchers concerned for the recovering species.

The critically endangered tope shark was caught by a keen fisherman who had been angling in the area for 20 years and says he ...

A Florida State University ecology and evolutionary biologist has discovered that the reproductive methods of individual ...

Big islands mean big opportunities to find somewhere magical, all for yourself. To those who think the world has been “done”, ...