The Odyssey is set in a world of Gods and monsters. Learn about the mythical figures and creatures who threaten and tempt ...

In 1799, George Shaw, a curator in the natural history department of the British Museum, received a strange skin in the mail.

When Kalki Koechlin published The Elephant in the Womb (Penguin) in 2021, she challenged the glossy narratives surrounding pregnancy and motherhood. Through the ...

Last summer, a large group of research partners — including the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians, Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries, the Nature Conservancy and Sonoma State ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ghostly invertebrates, animals living inside their own bodily fluids and ...

Islands are already famous for strange wildlife, but their cave systems take isolation to another level. Cut off from sunlight, predators, and sometimes even the open ocean, these underground ...

Fire salamanders are among the most-studied amphibians in Europe, yet until now, no one realized they are biofluorescent. Bernat Burriel-Carranza First described more than 250 years ago, fire ...

A newly identified ancient relative of the Mexican axolotl is giving scientists a rare window into the deep history of one of the world's most unusual amphibians. Discovered in sediments north of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It lives in a glass castle deep under the sea. It’s not a character from The Little ...

An increasingly rare loggerhead sea turtle was found dead on the eastern end of North Carolina’s Emerald Isle over the Memorial Day weekend, according to the Emerald Isle Sea Turtle Patrol. The ...

One whale’s unfortunate death can be an entire ecosystem’s blessing, recent research shows. A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale ...

Anonymous Content manager Kassie Evashevski helped Shelby Van Pelt's novel make it to the screen: "It was one of the few things at the time that I read that made me just feel good." By Ryan Gajewski ...