When we moved to a small town several years ago, I was delighted to find that families of ducks and geese lived on the local pond and that a mom-and-pop shop across the street sold little paper bags ...

The decidedly unattractive creature dominated the competition in the contest run by Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust, ...

The Atlantic City Aquarium held a grand reopening Monday amid high hopes that the newly renovated facility will continue to ...

The small blue ring octopus is extremely venomous, with toxin 1,200 times more powerful than cyanide. Its bite can swiftly paralyze, potentially leadi ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

A community of rare fish enthusiasts collects endangered species of freshwater fish from lakes and springs around the world, ...

These whales use their baleen plates to filter tiny animals — such as plankton, krill and small fish — out of the water.

The blobfish, or Psychrolutes marcidus, looks just as its name suggests: like a small ... rarely-seen fish blew up online after winning the not-so-coveted “world’s ugliest animal” award ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living ...

In a pond off the beaten path in Grand Rapids, hundreds of dead fish — carp, bluegill and bass — are piled up against a ...

Domoic acid poisoning is stranding marine mammals as warnings are issued to beachgoers of the threat posed by animals that ...