At least 112 non-native species have entered Japanese waters since the late 1800s, with some spreading northward apparently due to global warming, a team of marine biologists has found. The species ...

Escape to Bull Island, South Carolina, where ferry rides, Boneyard Beach, alligators, wildlife, and pristine coastal ...

Hidden inside luggage, children's toys and parcels, trafficked shark fins, seahorses and sea cucumbers often slip across ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

Asia is the largest continent on Earth, and its ecosystems are every bit as diverse as its size suggests. This huge continent ...

During Japan's Kofun Period (250–538 AD), no fully centralized imperial state governed the archipelago, but a powerful Yamato polity was gradually consolidating authority over m ...