It’s easy to assume humans are the smartest species on Earth, but a closer look at nature tells a different story. Across ...

# On the night of March 7, 1968, the Greek tanker General Colocotronis was on a laden voyage from Aruba to Palm Beach with oil when she suffered an engine failure in heavy weather and was stranded on ...

One of the questions people Google about Lord Howe Island is what currency the island uses. Which seems absurd, considering ...

The ancient Magul Maha Viharaya is just eight minutes from the park by car. It lies in the north edge of the Lahugala park, about 11km from the nearest town, Pottuvil. Jeeps are available at Pottuvil ...

They have also learned to trap fish using clever mud rings ... An octopus can unscrew the lid of a jar, escape from a locked tank, and carry coconut shells for shelter. Each arm acts like a ...

Some creatures, often overlooked or underestimated, have developed mental skills that rival—sometimes even surpass—our own, ...

Glowing fish tanks filled with planted corals line one ... About 15 metres below the surface of the Indian Ocean, surrounded by colourful parrot fish-tailed trigger fish, my dive buddy and I ...

An "odd-looking" deep-sea fish recently washed ashore on an Oregon beach to the surprise of a local aquarium. The Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Oregon, published pictures of the dead fish in an ...

ZoOceanarium, which runs two other U.S. aquariums, plans to hire significantly fewer employees than the feasibility study anticipated. With lower operating costs, the company estimates the aquarium ...

What do you do with a bizarre-looking dead fish that’s missing an eyeball and could be mistaken, at a distance, for a monster rattlesnake? If you’re the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, you ...