The little blue octopus as seen from the submersible. Editor at Large Nature can be a lot of things—beautiful, bloody, sweet, savage. And sometimes it’s just plain cute. For the latest example of ...

Somewhere off the U.S. East Coast in late May 2026, a satellite tag broke the surface of the Atlantic and fired a signal to ...

A seven-foot shark briefly turned a Rhode Island pond into the center of local fascination after surfacing in shallow water ...

Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, scientists found hundreds of previously ...

Blue whale sightings off southern Africa suggest the species may slowly be recovering after decades of commercial whaling.

A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of ...

North Atlantic right whales were once so thoroughly hunted they nearly went extinct. In fact, they were called right whales ...

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's ...

There is a moment in the 2009 cult classic Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre when a tourist, swimming away from a scene of ...

Hurricanes can be a devastating force—leveling trees, erasing beaches and damaging homes. But what do they do to wildlife? The answer ranges from the good to the bad to the ugly. Hurricanes sometimes ...

All-female animal groups including the Amazon molly fish, Komodo dragon and hammerhead shark.

A humpback that became stuck in the Baltic seemed to unite a nation in hope. Rescue efforts followed, and then ...