Every year, vast stretches of land across every inhabited continent are swallowed by floodwaters. Rivers burst their banks, plains disappear under shallow lakes, and forests become mazes of submerged ...

Stepping quietly out of the scrublands of central Spain, an Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) carries a freshly killed rabbit ...

A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed ...

A scientific study reveals how tiny water fleas detect chemical signals from predators and adapt their bodies to survive.

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

The mood is barely festive as a group of Muslim men huddle inside a small mosque to discuss the arrangements for Eid al-Adha ...

Mucus, feces, skin and other shed tissue allowed researchers to investigate which creatures have been swimming in two deep-sea canyons without having to observe or catch them ...

The Sudanese mark Eid al-Adha this year as the war enters its fourth year, amid a harsh humanitarian and economic reality that has changed the face of the holiday and stripped it of many of the social ...

Learn the key differences between dolphins and porpoises, plus essential facts about river species, threats they face, and ...

From Frangokastello in Crete to Mavris Petras Street in Thessaloniki and the “Well of Souls” in Kifissia, Greece is still ...

Julien Cabral has just completed his first voyage with the "Flotilla for Gaza". One of his eyes is ringed with purple, he has ...

Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands have fauna found nowhere else on Earth – even if they can be elusive at times.