Researchers withdrew work allegedly documenting the first goblin shark in the Mediterranean Sea, after others pointed out suspiciously toy-like features. reading time 4 minutes A controversy in the ...

St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of ...

A deep-sea drama is unfolding in the world of shark science. An exciting scientific record of a rare species in a new place might actually just be a photo of a plastic toy. Through published ...

NEW YORK — Brooklyn man Wei Qiang Lin confessed to sending 850 turtles valued at $1.4 million to Hong Kong. The reptiles were packed into more than 220 boxes labeled “plastic animal toys” when they ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Smells tasty—that might be what sea turtles are thinking when they ...

An entangled Steller sea lion enters the water after being darted with a sedative during a rescue mission with UC Davis' SeaDoc Society. (Bob Frield) When a big male Steller sea lion was spotted near ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal ...

To a sea turtle, plastic debris might smell like dinner. As the plastic detritus of modern human life washes into oceans, marine creatures of all kinds interact with and sometimes eat it (SN: 11/13/19 ...

Almost 1,800 marine animals ate or were caught up in plastic trash in the last decade, according to a new report that has compiled data on U.S. strandings. Among the hardest-hit creatures were sea ...