The mouth of a praying mantis is perfectly adapted for its predatory lifestyle. Its mandibles (jawbones) are designed to ...

Every year, countless animals set out on extraordinary journeys, traveling thousands of miles in search of food, safer ...

Matthew Smith's capture of two sea lions in the Falkland Islands earns him to the Underwater Photographer of the Year award.

An image of a pair of southern elephant seal pups has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 contest. Matty ...

A collection of honored images from this year’s competition celebrating “photography beneath the surface of the ocean, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools” ...

More than 7,900 entries were submitted to the competition, with stunning images featuring seal pups, a sunken ship, shrimp and sharks.

The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life ...

About 30 seals at a California state park have died, and seven of them had the lethal virus. Lab results for the other animals are pending ...