Origin stories aren't just for comic-book superheroes, as a new film about the evolution of whales, elephants and other animals intends to show....

University of Florida researchers say far fewer shark bites were reported worldwide last year...

The number of environmental laws worldwide has increased 38-fold since 1972, according to a UN report released Thursday. In China, a pioneering nonprofit is trying to hold government accountable to it...

Rescuers who respond to distressed whales and other marine animals say the federal government shutdown is making it more difficult to do their work...

Two shark researchers who came face to face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect shar...

Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved footprints to create a robot model of prehistoric life...

Researchers say a pack of wild canines found frolicking near the beaches of the Texas Gulf Coast carry a substantial amount of red wolf genes...

Researchers say there's a new calf among the population of critically endangered killer whales that live in the waters between Washington state and Canada...

Research lab revokes honorary titles for Nobel Prize-winning DNA scientist James Watson, who lost his job there in 2007 for expressing racist views...

A study authored by a scientist with a Maine lab says microscopic plants are able to thrive beneath the ice that covers the Greenland Sea...