Hannah Osborne

Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how our planet is changing.

The adult orcas swam around the ice demonstrating how to pull a seal off by its tail.

The skin of dwarf crocodiles found living in a cave in Gabon is turning orange from swimming in guano. It's unclear how long they've been down there, but genetic research indicates they may be morphing into a new species.

The big news in Earth science this year was all about climate change, with extreme weather, flooding and drought attributed to warming. Scientists also warned about much worse to come if we don't rein in carbon emissions.

There were sharks eating sharks, snakes eating snakes, and ants chopping each other's legs off. Here is a roundup of some of the best animal news stories from 2024.

The secretary bird photograph was among the winners of the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Prize.

Octopus filmed firing stones from her siphon from inside a clam shell like a sniper in never-before-seen behavior captured for the Netflix series Our Oceans.

The northern sea robin is a strange-looking fish with legs that it uses to "taste" the seafloor.

Female Burmese python measuring 14.8’ (4.5m) and weighing 115.2 lbs (52.3 kg) consuming a white-tailed deer weighing 76.9 lbs (34.9 kg) in southwestern Florida.

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days.

See the top 20 winning photographs from the 50th Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.

Scientists are installing multiple temporary seismic monitoring stations to get a better understanding of the sharp increase in earthquakes recorded at Mount Adams.

Six earthquakes were recorded at Mount Adams in September — the highest number in a single month since records began in 1982.

Filmmakers captured a mother eastern lowland gorilla nursing her infant for the PBS show "Silverback."

Mount Everest may be "taller than it should be" because of a river "capture" event 89,000 years ago.

All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure, then the females gobble up their corpses.

Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.