The Mediterranean Sea is home to some of the ocean's largest animals. Among the nine species of cetaceans commonly found along its western shores are the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus, the world's ...

A father-daughter duo, fossil hunting on a Somerset beach, found the jawbone of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a 25-metre sea ...

An 11-year-old girl's keen eye led to the discovery of a massive ichthyosaur jawbone fragment in Somerset, England. This find ...

A young girl's fossil find in England has led to the discovery of Ichthyotitan severnensis. This ancient marine reptile was ...

Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast. A stretch of shoreline below ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Animals on land and sea use sound for different purposes – and alterations in their environment can change the effect it has ...

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

In the world of record-setting, the largest-ever cannolo (singular of cannoli) was seriously the size of a whale. Just how ...

Lynne Schafer Gross and Mark McDermott One day circa 1970, a boy in El Segundo looked up at a telephone pole near his home and saw a hawk perched at ...

The North Atlantic right whale is one of our most endangered large whale species. They have been listed as endangered since ...