295 Results From "marine mammal "

These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time
Animals

These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time

By Amelia Urry

Fake Bears
Bears

Ranking the Types of Bear Species

By Dan Nosowitz

The deadliest animals in America, ranked
Animals

The deadliest animals in America, ranked

By Erin Blakemore

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard
Spiders

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard

By Kate Baggaley

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about
Animals

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about

By Sara Chodosh

Gray seals are making a huge comeback
Animals

Gray seals are making a huge comeback

By Sarah Fecht

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.
Whales

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Bottlenose dolphin
Ocean

Dolphins beat up octopuses before eating them, and the reason is kind of horrifying

By Sara Chodosh

To save endangered whales, look to the poop
Endangered Species

To save endangered whales, look to the poop

By Kate Baggaley

underwater image of true's beaked whale
Whales

Here’s the first video of one of the planet’s most elusive beaked whales

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Reconstruction of the amphibious bird-like dinosaur Halszkaraptor
Dinosaurs

This new, duck-like dinosaur is so wacky scientists thought it was fake

By Rachel Feltman

A mysterious stranding left nearly 100 dead dolphins off the coast of Florida
Animals

A mysterious stranding left nearly 100 dead dolphins off the coast of Florida

By Eleanor Cummins

Humans are infecting wild lands with our noises
Pollution

Humans are infecting wild lands with our noises

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

More evidence that the dinosaurs were super unlucky with regards to that whole asteroid thing
Dinosaurs

More evidence that the dinosaurs were super unlucky with regards to that whole asteroid thing

By Mary Beth Griggs

Manatee waving
Ocean

Taking manatees off the endangered species list doesn’t mean we should stop protecting them

By Sara Chodosh

Dinosaurs got an evolutionary assist from huge volcanic eruptions
Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs got an evolutionary assist from huge volcanic eruptions

By Mary Beth Griggs

Possible New Whale Species Discovered In Pacific Ocean
Whales

Possible New Whale Species Discovered In Pacific Ocean

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

Octopuses can basically edit their own genes on the fly
Fish

Octopuses can basically edit their own genes on the fly

By Rachel Feltman

Sleep
Psychology

Your brain stays half-awake when you sleep in a new place

By Grennan Milliken

How the Pacific Ocean changes weather around the world
Environment

How the Pacific Ocean changes weather around the world

By Simon Winchester

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Painting of a woman in white with a demon sitting on her chest and a ghostly horse to the left.
Mental Health

The creepy science behind sleep paralysis ‘demons’

By RJ Mackenzie

Close up photo of trapdoor spider named after Stephen Colber
Spiders

Spider named after Stephen Colbert has twice as many chromosomes as you

By Andrew Paul

a touchscreen fabric
Engineering

Touchscreen shirt shows photos, plays videos, and answers calls

By Mack DeGeurin

Dog paw imprint on piece of Bronze Age mudbrick wall
Archaeology

Dog’s paw print found in a 3,700-year-old brick

By Andrew Paul