Mirabestia maisie and Astyra mclaughlinae are named after family members and colleagues, while Elimedon breviclunis is named for the animal’s short butt.

One species’ trash is another’s treasure. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean is now home to dozens of ...

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Every year, along the Pacific Coast of North America, a troubling scene unfolds as the bodies of gray whales wash up on the ...

Researchers pulled 24 tiny new creatures from a deep abyss in the central Pacific Ocean, some with long, spindly legs and ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call ...

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to name 1,000 of these unknown animals by 2030, 24 new species of deep-sea ...

Rocking spidery legs and surrounded by stinky mud and hordes of insects ready to take a bite, the red mangrove was a hard ...

Members of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community gathered to honor a "sacred relative," the seventh gray whale to die in ...

Vancouver Island-based conservation group MERS is warning boaters of a “high collision risk” with a grey whale that’s been ...

A team of 16 researchers working in one of the planet’s least understood ecosystems has identified 24 species previously unknown to science, including something that almost never happens: the ...

Love your shades.” Thus began the tale of me and my Doppelgänger with whom I happen to be acquainted but up to that ...