American crocodiles on Sanibel Island in Florida could be mating at the northern edge of the range of this species, which ...

Fossils from the Cretaceous period suggest that some prehistoric crocodile-like reptiles may have been far more dangerous than their modern relatives. Massive skulls, powerful jaws, and unusual tooth ...

In the rivers and swamplands, a remarkable thing happens: capybaras and crocodiles coexist in the same habitat without frequent conflicts. You would think that there would be some thrilling predation, ...

Humpback whales sometimes use this very intricate, very cool strategy to catch fish. It is called bubble-net feeding. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, a new study suggests the whales are teaching each ...

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

Humpback whales will sometimes use an intricate strategy to catch food called bubble-net feeding. A new study suggests they're spreading the knowledge of how to do it to each other. Humpback whales ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

Fish-eating killer whales in southern Alaska have a diverse, seasonally changing diet featuring salmon and groundfish, ...

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