The orangutan clings to the top of a mostly leafless tree in Indonesia's portion of Borneo as waves of thick smoke from the ...

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, collectively known as coleoid cephalopods, have evolved exceptionally large and elaborately ...

Malaysia closed schools in Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country Friday as haze from fires in neighboring Indonesia ...

Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to ...

Scientists in Australia trained sea lions and seals to respond to a hearing test for research into how the marine mammals are ...

Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from ...

Blue damselfish, with their striking blue hue, are easy to spot, even along Okinawa's heavily urbanized coastlines. But while ...

A prehistoric cold case near Drumheller reveals either a small-time raptor scavenged on an apex predator, or a baby ...

A breakdown of normal polar winds in winter raises the chance of extreme cold—and a resulting spike in energy demand—in ...

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern ...

A new paper published in the journal Phytotaxa describes a new species in the genus Victoria, the Colombian giant water lily ...

Across mammals, larger species typically have longer lifespans, ranging from only a couple of years for mice to almost 200 ...