Pollution by microplastics is increasingly posing a major threat to the world’s seas and oceans, as well as human health, ...

From the tiny Tonttata tribe to the towering elephant of Zou, the characters and creatures of One Piece come in every shape, size, and color.

The little-known species with a “ribbon-like body” is believed by some cultures to be a harbinger of destructive events like ...

Algal blooms have many causes, but it's commonly chemicals in industrial fertilizers that end up in rivers and oceans in a ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

“You probably killed something older than any human on the planet,” one follower noted. “There’s a chance this fish is over 150 years old,” another person observed. Glenn Krieger (left) poses with ...

The catch of a giant shortraker rockfish this month off Alaska is a pending world record. The brightly colored fish, landed by Glenn Krieger out of Elfin Cove, weighed 44.8 pounds on a digital scale.

Why do humans uniquely have a chin, for example? And why, relative to body weight, is a human testicle triple the size of a gorilla’s but a fifth of that of a chimpanzee?

The evolutionary shifts driven by human over-exploitation risk undermining some fish populations beyond recovery, according to researchers, who looked at almost a quarter of a century of fish DNA.

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use, headquartered in Amsterdam, has proposed adding 359 pharmacologically active substances to the official list of approved compounds for the ...