A sea turtle’s sex is determined by the temperature of the sand it’s born in; rising global temperatures mean that female green sea turtles now outnumber males 116 to 1.

Human Emissions Made Ocean Heat Wave 53 Times More Likely - Three 2016 marine heat waves that killed whales, birds, corals, and shellfish from Australia to Alaska were many times more likely thanks to climate change.

Extinct Burrowing Bat Discovered, and It Was Giant

Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land

Scientists are running baby green sea turtles and loggerhead sea turtles to test if excessive land crawling due to artificial lights might tire out the confused hatchlings and make it harder for them to swim.

Lobster's Pepsi 'Tattoo' Highlights Major Ocean Problem

Newly Discovered Species of Orangutan Is Rarest Great Ape

Hundreds of fossil pterosaur eggs more than 100 million years old found in China—by far the most ever discovered

Rock From Another Star System Is Unlike Anything Seen Before

Iceland's largest volcano may be ready to erupt

At Wageningen University's research lab, two small earthworms were recently born from a colony living in soil created by NASA to simulate the dirt found on Mars - Scientists hope that common earthworms could one day be used to help humans grow crops on the red planet

Rare Solar Navigation Tool Found in Ancient Shipwreck

The U.S.S.R. covertly mapped American and European cities

Ancient Teeth Found in Europe Belonged to Mystery Primate but do not "rewrite human history."

Raccoons have passed the Aesop's Fable test, which measures if animals can discern cause and effect by displacing water to access food.

Yellowstone Supervolcano May Rumble to Life Faster Than Thought

Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All

Without the Ozone Treaty You’d Get Sunburned in 5 Minutes

Dinosaurs Laid Blue Eggs—And That's a Big Deal

Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space

Water Found Deep Inside the Moon

Holding an Auction to Sell Rhino Horn in South Africa

Plastic Micro-Particle Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific

New frog species discovered

New Feathered Dinosaur Had Four Wings but Couldn't Fly

We Evolved to Run–But We're Doing It All Wrong

Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades

The Map That Popularized the Word ‘Gerrymander’

Marine biologists have discovered that some of the Gulf’s common bottlenose dolphins are decapitating marine catfish

Scientists discover massive 2-ton sunfish. Largest bong fish every discovered.

More →