New research has unraveled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water.

Known to some as the “Freshwater Everest,” if you want to explore this mountain, you don’t go up, you go down. In the middle of Lake Superior, near the boundary between Canadian and US waters, sits ...

Joe Zelenovich was dividing his attention between three TVs, until the play. Sitting in a house in Ames, Iowa with about a dozen people, Zelenovich was watching multiple college football games. Then ...

Writer Katherine Rundell introduces the hippopotamus as part of her series exploring the lives of 20 astonishing and endangered creatures. Show more In this episode, Katherine Rundell turns her ...

A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.