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The 10-year fight over a private island in the San Francisco Bay ends today. Point Buckler’s 50 acres of marshland will be ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations ...

Last year was the hottest year in history – on average more than 1.55 degrees higher than pre-industrial temperatures. The ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

At the station, astronauts collected water samples and ensured the zebrafish were fed, and observed abnormal behaviors ... Wang Gaohong, a researcher at the institute, said that like humans, fish also ...

Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ ...

Nature has always been a powerful source of inspiration, with inventors diving into the world around them for new ideas. From ...

A mountain lion was attacking a dog in Downieville early in the morning on Monday when a neighbor shot and killed it, ...

The corpse, macabre and strangely enduring, is less a figure of death than a reminder of its impossibility in this watery ...

Crossing borders and traversing the world’s most remote corners, the People Photography Award celebrates our shared ...