According to research, scientists know quite a lot about sharks. For example, we know that an estimated 57 shark species are ...

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 ...

Tim Haley The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is your first clue that this town plays by different rules. While other California ...

If California had a favorite eccentric relative, it would be Santa Cruz, and you’d definitely want them at every family gathering. This coastal treasure about 75 miles south of San Francisco has spent ...

A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by ...

On this day in 2006, the New Pornographers vocalist crafted not just a set of bewitching, alluring Grimms’ fairytales, but ...

Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might ...

Orcas don’t have any natural predators, so how did this happen? The tooth marks, it turned out, were distinctive – they were ...

Conservation groups are challenging the Marine Stewardship Council's "sustainable" label on Antarctic krill fishing, citing localized overharvesting and ecosystem risk.

Summary A dead whale washed ashore at Sheri Beach, in Monrovia, tangled in a fishing net. By the time authorities arrived, only bones remained -- exposing gaps in Liberia's coastal response system.

Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species, as we are the ones destroying their natural habitat, poaching and also causing the effects of climate change. Even though ...