In a remote district of western Nepal, a small, unassuming creature has defied extinction. After being absent from the ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

Asian small-clawed otters have a cult following on the internet, particularly in Japan. However, researchers recently found ...

Spending time in nature is important for your mental health. But studies show that even just listening to birds singing can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. A European robin, Erithacus ...

Meet Maya and her family, the four-footed stars of My Otter Diary, a new documentary on smooth-coated otters along the ...

Take it slow on a boat trip down Ireland’s most storied waterway, which courses through the country’s green heart via ...

Take it slow on a boat trip down Ireland’s most storied waterway, which courses through the country’s green heart via ...

Two million years ago, on the fringe of some of the northernmost land on Earth just 500 miles from the North Pole, the landscape couldn’t have looked more different from today’s polar desert.

North American river otters once lived in every major river system in Pennsylvania. But because of development, otters ...

B.C. is home to two species. Sea otters spend their lives in the ocean – they mate, sleep, groom, hunt, and give birth in the water. River otters are more regularly seen in the region – cavorting, ...