Cold coastlines tend to blur marine animals together at a distance. A dark shape stretched across wet rocks could easily be ...

Neuroscientists uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can’t? The journal Science published the research led by Emory University and the New ...

This latest title in the "Of the World" series - the seventeenth - covers that fascinating group of animals whose evolution into their present forms and life-styles seems almost contradictory. While ...

There are three extant families of pinnipeds—the otariids (sea lions and fur seals), phocids (true seals), and odobenids (walruses). Steller sea lions are members of the Otariidae family. The otariids ...