A mystery beginning in the South Atlantic and ending in South Kensington has finally been solved. The century-long story of ...

In a single year, a swift flies roughly 124,000 miles — the equivalent of five trips around the Earth. The highest officially ...

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All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

South west of Cairo, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, there lie treasures even more ancient than the pharaohs’ tombs — and ...

Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative consisting of over 50 scientists, is working to uncover — and eventually decode — patterns in whale “speech.” ...

"The Good Whale" is the new podcast from "The New York Times" and Serial Productions, which explores the years-long journey ...

In the ocean’s abyss, deep-diving whales use echolocation to hunt in pitch dark. Emitting sounds that bounce off objects gives the whales a clear picture of their surroundings. “More often than any ...

The Republican candidate gutted protections for animals the first time he had the chance. Now he’s likely to go further.

New research shows endangered sperm whales are spending more time off the coast of Central California than previously thought ...

From the depths of the sea, whales are urging us to recognize our shared history, fate, and future, writes Michaela Harrison.

Today, a Project CETI research team led by Stephanie Gil, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), have proposed a new ...