RICHMOND — The James River Association recently highlighted alarming declines of migratory fish in the James River. The ...

Off the tip of Cape Cod, on the bay side of the national shoreline, a North Atlantic right whale and her four-month-old calf swim in a synchronized dance. The mother’s oil slick of a body breaks the ...

The greatest differences between kippers and sardines can be found in their phylogenetic families and the way they’re served as food. Kippers are herring, and they are mainly from the Clupeidae family ...

King penguins live in places like the South Sandwich Islands, South Georgia Island and the Crozet Islands in breeding colonies on the small patches of land in the south Atlantic and Indian Oceans, ...

Advert 700 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean was a hydrothermal ... Microbiologists also claim that animals such as crabs, shrimps and eels also inhabit the environment.

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

A new study from the Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre highlights Sweden's key role in shaping EU fisheries policy that has allowed large-scale industrial fishing of herring in the Baltic Sea ...

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Ornithologist Bruce Beehler tracks down what he calls the “Magnificent Seven,” a charismatic group of migratory birds, in his ...

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These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...