For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

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How bioluminescence works in nature. Most ocean animals produce their own light or host bacteria that do—a useful skill for communication, finding prey, camouflage, and more.

Despite being one of the most photographed natural spaces in the world, stories of the Okavango Delta are rarely told by ...

Since 2022, sea urchins have been plagued by a scuticociliate, a single-celled pathogen that eats away at the animals’ soft tissue and makes their spines fall off.

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Dolphins have lived near Rome for at least 2,000 years. Scientists fear for their future. Rome's dolphins have an unusually high number of bite marks, suggesting that the population is in competition ...

This is how National Geographic Explorer Jahawi Bertolli is protecting the ocean. His work has taken him across Kenya, from the remote northern coast to the Masai Mara National Reserve ...