The Japanese sea lion, an aquatic mammal that vanished in the 1970s, was long considered a subspecies of the California sea lion. However, by 2003, scientific understanding shifted, and it is now ...

Agriculture Minister Koizumi Shinjiro says Japan will urge other countries to jointly oppose the European Union's planned ...

A state-of-the-art fossil discovery technique shows that squids originated and quickly rose to become dominant predators in ...

Over lunch of rice, soup, fish, and vegetables at my sister’s house in Paranaque, Philippines, I found myself explaining to ...

Discover 10 deadly animals that people around the world actually eat — from Japan’s lethal fugu to Cambodia’s fried ...

This small fish, native to the hot springs of Tecopa in California, was declared extinct in 1981. Habitat modification due to the development of bathhouses and the introduction of non-native species ...

From waterfalls in Argentina to old-growth trees in Japan, these under-the-radar destinations deserve a spot on your bucket ...

An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...

A study by Dr. Martin Ebert and Dr. Martina Kölbl-Ebert examined the remains of some 4,200 Tharsis fossil specimens. They ...

The species last roamed the Earth 10,000 years ago. Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.