Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...

Life exists in all the cracks and crevices of the world. The discovery of a first-of-its-kind habitat on the Pacific Ocean ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." These two coyotes ...

Deep sea researchers have discovered a whole new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents in the ocean floor. Hydrothermal vents have long been an ecologically exciting environment for researchers, as ...

When we encounter a raccoon, deer, bat, fox, or some other wild animal in our neighborhood, we’re often pleasantly surprised—but not as amazed, perhaps, as our recent urban forebears might have been.