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A mother and calf West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Crystal River, Florida.

Florida’s famous manatees were originally tourists

By Laura Baisas

Steller's Sea Cow

Meet the extinct sea cow that cultivated Pacific kelp forests

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a crocodile biting an ancient seacow with a shark lurking behind it

Crocodile attacks sea cow. Tiger Shark picks apart sea cow.

By Laura Baisas

an otter eating while floating on its back

Female sea otters use tools more than males

By Laura Baisas

orca chomps on a seal while breeching the water

16 breathtaking images from the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest

By Popular Science Team

a new mollusc with a hood over its head

New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap

By Laura Baisas

A blue whale swims close to a large vessel near the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

New maps show high-risk zones for whale-ship collisions

By Anna Nisi / The Conversation

Nine-banded Armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, in water, Santa Clara Ranch, southern Texas, United States.

‘Chaos is the norm now:’ The blurry line between invasive and range-expanding species

By Lauren Leffer

How kelp farming is helping revive the economy and ecology of a Long Island bay

How kelp farming is helping revive the economy and ecology of a Long Island bay

By Iris M. Crawford / Nexus Media

two sea otters in the ocean with one with its paw up

Why playing is no laughing matter for otters

By Heide Island

H5N1 flu has been confirmed in Gentoo penguins for the first time. Over 20 Gentoo chicks have been reported dead from the virus or are showing symptoms of this highly contagious strain of bird flu.

Antarctic penguins are now dying from the H5N1 strain of bird flu

By Laura Baisas

Sea cucumbers and fish feeding at a coral reef.

Sea cucumbers are the ‘scum suckers’ corals desperately need

By Laura Baisas

Purple sea urchins clumped together in an urchin barren.

These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels

It’s Fat Bear season again! This is the best feed to keep up with these hairy giants

It’s Fat Bear season again! This is the best feed to keep up with these hairy giants

By Charlotte Hu

A dramatic blue-grey sky highlights the soft greys of a Weddell seal as it rests on an ice floe.

25 enchanting images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice awards

By Popular Science Team

South Africa’s Missing sharks have been found

South Africa’s Missing sharks have been found

By David Shiffman / Hakai Magazine

A mangrove tree in Florida to represent blue carbon and the ocean's power to fight climate change

Blue carbon is a natural climate solution with big potential

Beaver driving construction truck with logs on back to symbolize ecosystem engineer. Illustrated in purple, yellow, and brown.

Beavers, snails, and elephants are top grads from nature’s college of engineering

By Philip Kiefer

Seaweed growing underwater

Why seaweed is a natural fit for replacing certain plastics

By Sara Kiley Watson

A Garibaldi fish swims through a California kelp forest.

These newly discovered sea sponges were hiding in plain sight in California’s kelp forests

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A virtual figure projected on the big presentation screen at the EssilorLuxottica SWITCH eye-care summit in Orlando in March 2026

I went from Milan to Orlando to learn whether glasses can change your look and your outlook

Image of Crown Mountain in Canada with a red circle highlighting a stranded teen hiker in the far distance

A teen used AI to plan a hiking route. It trapped him on a cliff.

Artwork depicting feathered raptors scavenging a dead Albertosaurus

A baby tyrannosaur possibly cannibalized its dead relative

An image of a squid taken at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, using light sheet microscopy.

Squid are covered in little hairs like the ones in your ear

By Margherita Bassi