For young hellbenders, choosing the right home is more than a major life decision. Their survival can depend on it. These aquatic salamanders, natives of...

The starry dwarf frog is an expert hider. Plunging into leaf litter at the slightest disturbance, it has successfully evaded attention for millions of years...

How do you monitor the number and location of Earth’s plants and animals at any given time? It’s a daunting, planet-sized problem, but an...

Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is known only from its gigantic bladelike teeth, which can be more than 7 inches long. But these teeth, described...

Plants’ water-to-land leap marks one of the most important milestones in the evolution of life on Earth. But how plants managed this transition when...

Steven Manchester didn’t set out to discover Central America’s oldest known marine mammal. He was hoping to find fossil plants. Manchester, curator...

While several high-profile shark bites made headlines last year, the total number of shark attacks globally took a nosedive. The University of Florida’s...

A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to tackle longstanding questions about plant...

More than three centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian sailed across the Atlantic on a...

About 56 million years ago, on an Earth so warm that palm trees graced the Arctic Circle, a mouse-sized primate known as Teilhardina first curled its fingers...