Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

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From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

Imagine looking at a majestic blue whale gliding effortlessly through the ocean, the largest animal on Earth. Now, picture ...

Highly adaptable, Asian small-clawed otters can thrive in a variety of freshwater aquatic habitats, from swamps and mangrove ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

The world's fastest animals on earth, the speed heroes, have an incredible adaptation that enables them ... The ostrich, a land animal and also the largest flying bird in the world, is also ...

This nonliving carbon is derived in particular from the excrement and decomposition of dead plants and animals ... of carbon exchanges between land, atmosphere and oceans to distribute terrestrial ...

decrease the amount of water required for the animals and the production facilities, and decrease the land necessary for livestock operations.

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them ... away from being these marginal tiny little things on the water’s edge into large forests and entire ecosystems ...

land and water—in ancient times very similar to that which now exists. To be sure, it is evident that portions, now dry land, formed once the bottom of seas, and mountains were but islands ...