A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...

This western Australian odyssey – encompassing the North West Coastal Highway – is one of the greatest road trips on ... Read ...

Colombo, Dec. 6 (Daily Mirror) - The Department of Wildlife Conservation reported that the carcass of a rare dugong (Dugong dugon) was found washed ashore on the Pesalai beach along the Mannar coast ...

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Note to editors: Photos of the Al Maszhabiya site and fossils, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life ...

Experience the peaceful and gentle world of a dugong with this intimate close-up video. The footage focuses on the animal's face, highlighting its wrinkled snout and sensitive whiskers, which it uses ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...

Some members of the sea cow species called dugongs spend their days feasting on seagrass in the Persian Gulf. By doing so, the bulbous marine mammals act as “ecosystem engineers,” reshaping the ...

Doha, Qatar: Scientific history was made yesterday as a major international study, published in the rigorously peer-reviewed open access journal, “PeerJ”, officially names a new species of ancient ...

Nestled in the Shadyside neighborhood, the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium can make an entertaining afternoon for young families. Everything from the petting zoo in Kids Kingdom to the stingray tanks in ...