In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, ...

On a warm morning at Matemwe, a small crowd gathers behind a rope barrier as the sand begins to tremble. A tiny head pushes through a soft mound of earth, then another, and another. Within minutes, ...

National Geographic photographer Josh Cogan captures the quiet power of Hawaii’s ocean life, revealing how resilience shows ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.

Researchers in Colombia have identified a 13-million-year-old turtle species and named it Shakiremys colombiana in honor of ...

The ocean, blanketing over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is estimated to be home to more than half of all life on our planet.

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Sea turtle cold stun season has officially begun for Long Island. From November to February, volunteers with the New York Marine Rescue Center (NYMRC) in Riverhead patrol local beaches, keeping an eye ...

The first cold-stunned sea turtle of the 2025 stranding season was rescued as the season begins, according to a Nov. 10 community announcement. Mass Audubon, the largest nature-based organization in ...

Dunkleosteus belonged to a group of ancient, armoured fish known as the placoderms. These fish lived during the Silurian and the Devonian periods - between 440 and 359 million years ago - and they ...

The New York Marine Rescue Center in Riverhead is urgently recruiting volunteers to patrol Long Island beaches for ...