An adorable gray harbor seal recently had to be rescued from the beaches of Ocean County at the start of the new year.

A lack of understanding can no longer be used as an excuse for inaction. As the authors of the new study point out, ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores—but how? What type of food did extinct ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies is continuing to provide treatment for 22 Kemp's ridley sea turtles brought over from Massachusetts.

This important study of regulatory elements and gene expression in the craniofacial region of the fat-tailed dunnart shows that, compared to placental mammals, marsupial craniofacial tissue develops ...

A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that ...

The Central Valley is home to many of California's most vulnerable groups to bird flu: agricultural workers. It's also where ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

“The deer mouse (genus Peromyscus) is the most abundant mammal in North America and it occupies almost every type of ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...