On Sudest Island in southern Papua New Guinea, researchers identified a new snake species named Aspidomorphus dimorphus after a research assistant was bitten by it in 2004. This snake, found in the ...

These spiny or slimy ocean creatures display an astonishing diversity of appearances, behaviors and lifestyles—and many are ...

Ann Somers, senior lecturer emerita in the biology department at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, emphasized that ...

Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine’s chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state’s ...

The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF) is launching the first phase of a $65 million expansion and renovation in ...

Home to over 50 species of at-risk animals, the NCDEQ called the French Broad River basin "one of the most heavily altered" ...

Few creatures can match the manta ray or stingray when it comes to gracefulness in the water. These cartilaginous fish appear ...

A young sperm whale beached in Beaufort County may have been starving. Scientists are working to determine what made the ...

Shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast attract sand tiger sharks and great white sharks. Divers film the action.

A sperm whale that beached itself on a popular South Carolina resort island was euthanized late Sunday after veterinarians ...

Strands of kelp glow in the dim morning light off California’s Channel Islands as fish and sea lions weave through the golden ...

Duck hunting and decoy carving traditions face an uncertain future as climate change disrupts habitats in coastal North ...