Satellite imagery from above Earth has documented an unusual turquoise glow emitting from the ocean in Australia.

An analysis of the interior of a single bone suggests its owner was probably an aquatic or semi-aquatic animal. Since the ...

The exception is a strange beast with an elongated beak ... at least 1,500 years—that Loch Ness is home to a mysterious aquatic animal. In Scottish folklore, large animals have been associated ...

On the New England coast and in San Francisco Bay, marine ecologist Jim Carlton is tracking the rising rate of destructive aquatic invasive ... transports plants and animals along with other ...

Together, these traits make bones heavier, which is useful in aquatic animals because they reduce buoyancy, so it’s easier for the creatures to dive underwater to forage for food. By contrast ...

New research suggests that land-based echidnas descended from semi-aquatic mammals ... three decades ago in Australia suggests that both animals evolved not from a creature that lived on land ...

“You see this in other semiaquatic mammals.” If the assessment is correct, stem monotremes originated as semi-aquatic animals, with echidna bodies slowly evolving to favor a land-based existence, ...