Black herons use umbrella-shaped wings to trick fish, reduce glare, and hunt more effectively in shallow water.

Different beak and jaw shapes are illustrative examples of how animal species have adapted to different food sources. In a ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and rivers were full of strange fish with armor, fins, lungs, slime, and ...

The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, ...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Roland Rosacay is an accomplished artist who hails from Bulacan and is currently based in San Mateo, Rizal. Over the years, he has made a notable impact on the art world, particularly through his ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Lake Tanganyika in Africa is home to one of the most impressive examples of rapid evolution. Around 250 species of cichlid ...

"The brain of Koharalepis was similar to those of the fishes that straddle the vertebrate water-to-land transition." ...

We've evolved beyond hooking a worm and tossing a line in the water. But one recent tech upgrade is significantly changing ...