Growing up in a rural Southern California town in the 1990s, Tammy Russell didn’t know any scientists. And yet it was there, amid the fields of Cherry Valley, that she started dreaming about a future ...

Fur seals may look like they’re simply resting after exhausting hunting trips at sea, but their bodies are secretly working ...

Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds. Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies ...

Headlines in early summer 2024: Surface water temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea are significantly higher than the values from the previous year. Individual data points indicate that it is not only ...

Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) and bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncates) might be expert divers. But their hearts don’t stay steady at depth, instead beating irregularly when the animals ...