Study: Cave Lions were Distinct Species that Occasionally Bred with Ancestors of Today’s Lions
The extinct Eurasian cave lion (Panthera spelaea) and today’s African and Asian lions (Panthera leo) belong to separate…
Scientists may have finally solved why sloths are so slow
Sloths are the slowest mammals on Earth, but their lives in dense forests have made them difficult to…
Video captures fisherman landing great white shark off Nantucket: “I was hugging it”
A fisherman who has spent years catching, tagging and researching sharks off of Nantucket, Massachusetts, got the surprise…
The largest-ever scorpion roamed Britain 400 million years ago
Summary Scientists revisited fossils at London’s Natural History Museum that sat misidentified for over a century before recognizing…
Four days of rain slashed population of world's rarest orangutans, study says – BBC
Four days of rain slashed population of world’s rarest orangutans, study says BBCDeadly Indonesia floods wiped out at least…
VIDEO: Rare footage of Mediterranean great white shark captured by ghost diver
More than 132 feet below sea level, a diver was removing abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck in…
World’s largest, deepest, oldest whale graveyard discovered in Indian Ocean
The world’s largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists,…
Nantucket fisherman reels in great white shark
“It probably took 300 yards of line off my reel … we immediately could tell it was something…
Sloths Are The Slowest Mammals On The Planet – The First Ever Genome Sequence Reveals Why – IFLScience
Sloths Are The Slowest Mammals On The Planet – The First Ever Genome Sequence Reveals Why IFLScienceWhy are sloths…
“My fingers were shaking”: diver films great white shark in Mediterranean first
The remarkable encounter took place in May several kilometres off the coast between Tunisia and Sicily. Diver Derk…
To see her standing there, focused entirely on finding her cub – who was in serious danger – was one of the most affecting things I’ve ever seen.
On a stretch of river near Bardia National Park lies a 4km2 island that has become one of the…
Polar Bears Hunt By Reading The Wind — A Biologist Explains How
From tracking invisible scent plumes on the wind to navigating a rapidly warming Arctic, the polar bear reveals…