Animal Migration

Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again.

Discover interesting facts about whales, how big they can get, and how they track down their prey.

ANTARCTICA, Feb 24 (IPS) - It was 7:30 a.m. I got ready the fastest I could, adrenaline kicking in, curiosity and excitement peaking. I rushed out of my cabin, opened the big exit door, and there in front of me was the first visual of the majestic white continent - Antarctica.

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments.

Right whales in the Southern Ocean have a median lifespan of around 74 years. And they can live for up to 130 years, twice as long as scientists thought. The post Right whales have a longer lifespan than scientists thought first appeared on EarthSky.

Conservationists are getting better at monitoring the movement of the highly endangered right whale. They hope it will encourage ships to slow down in an effort to save the species.

Learn more about some of the most unique dinosaurs, prehistoric reptiles, and flying reptiles discovered in 2024.

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.

For thousands of years, the Arctic's tundra sequestered more carbon than it emitted. Not anymore.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to list monarch butterflies as threatened, with species-specific protections under the Endangered Species Act.

Explore the amazing array of mammals living in our oceans with the latest marine mammal news, features and articles from Live Science.

Europe's only indigenous group are in a battle to survive on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Meet the community determined to live on.

Over 90 percent of species on Earth perished during the end-Permian mass extinction.

Millions of birds migrate every year to escape winter, but spending time in a warmer climate does not save them energy, according to research by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB). Using miniaturized loggers implanted in wild blackbirds, scientists recorded detailed measurements of heart rate and body temperature from birds every 30 minutes from fall to the following spring—the first time the…

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by such events, suffered catastrophic losses. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it's known, was the greatest of the "big five" mass extinctions in Earth's history.

The Motus Wildlife Tracking System has put nearly 50,000 incredibly lightweight radio transmitters on birds, bats and insects. We caught up with an ornithologist to learn more about where these creatures are flying

Researchers uncovered a rare instance of large sharks preying on one another. The finding shows the complexity of shark interactions and resulting impacts. The post Sharks may be hunting other sharks first appeared on EarthSky.

Eight sub-male seals were seen on camera over 2,000 feet deep, near an underwater lab.

Sasayamagnomus measured barely three-feet-long.

Marine biologists observed whales manipulating their air bubble traps.