The Trump administration has launched a process to redefine what it means to “harm” threatened and endangered species, the first step toward stripping habitat protections from rare plants and animals ...

Reptiles in open habitats evolved brighter colors over time. This helped them reflect sunlight and survive climate change.

In just about a month, hundreds of nesting sea turtles will return to Sanibel and Captiva’s shores to lay their eggs throughout sea turtle nesting season, which in Florida runs from May through ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

The blobfish, described as the world's ugliest animal, has been voted ... another deep sea dweller, by nearly 300 votes. In their natural habitat, on the seabed at depths of about 2,000ft to ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

Rust can be incredibly annoying if it appears on your new bicycle or car, but if you are a free-floating baby marine animal ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Biologging sensors attached to animals help researchers collect valuable data ... help determine whether existing MPAs effectively cover important habitats. Studies in the Ross Sea and British Indian ...

Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish ... Images Blobfish are considered deep-sea species and are often found in cold, dark habitats between 1,970 and 3,940 feet deep in ...

Over a decade after being relegated to the “world’s ugliest animal,” the blobfish ... their population and habitat have grown vulnerable to deep-sea trawling, Konrad Kurta, a spokesperson ...