Intelligence isn't unique to humans — as the 15 amazing videos of animals solving problems in this article are about to show you.

The first year of a baby's life is full of such memorable firsts, and there's always something new to experience and explore.

Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...

Recovering the DNA sample involved distracting a curious albatross to recover the biopsy sample. For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s ...

PORTLAND, Maine — One of the world's rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of ...

Photographers capture mutant crayfish, cleaning fish, and synchronized whales in this year's top underwater contests.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. You might expect the ancestor of modern-day whales to be a marine dweller of considerable size. But pakicetus is as far removed from that image as ...