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A whale researcher in British Columbia, Canada, last week experienced an extraordinary encounter with a rare and enormous sunfish that appeared outside his home.

Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve. With too little sea ice,…

The vast majority of animals on Earth are invertebrates (animals without backbones) – such as insects, arachnids and crustaceans.

The rusted barrels on the beach stand as a grim reminder of how penguins here once came close to being wiped out by humans for their oil. In the years since, they have returned — but now they could be facing a different man-made threat.

Cornwall was plagued by thousands and thousands of hoverflies earlier this year and now experts at the University of Exeter, Devon, say there could be more to come

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have observed the insects playing with inanimate objects for fun

Findings add to growing evidence that bees’ minds are much more complex than previously imagined, scientists said.

Great white sharks around the coast of South Africa were found dead and headless on the shore, as a pair of whales have been killing large predators in the ocean

It’s no secret that bees carry an electrical charge — but researchers were surprised by just how strong this charge is

US Fish and Wildlife Service warns of sharp drop off in population