Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow. Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It’s thick and dark and “gooey” and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community [...]

These dramatic pictures reveal the stunning hunting skills of a killer whale and show the extremes the mammals will go to in order to catch its prey. Regarded as one of the deadliest predators of the seas, this killer whale has mastered the art of beaching itself in order to hunt young seal pups in [...]

Its jaws wide open beneath the blank gaze of a single eye, a shark breaks the surface of the sea to reveal ranks of jagged teeth. It’s one of some 30 or more milling around in a feeding frenzy in the same spot of ocean. In the midst of them all is underwater photographer Eric [...]

When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say. Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week. That’s because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into [...]

Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus The Asian tiger mosquito or forest day mosquito, from the mosquito family Culicidae, is characterized by its black and white striped legs, and small black and white body.Aedes albopictus is a competent vector of many viruses including dengue fever (CDC 2001) and Eastern equine encephalitis virus (Mitchell et al. 1992). [...]

Icicles hang from an orange tree in Balm, Florida, on January 3 it is difficult to convey, in two dimensions, how the ice enclosure acts like a lens, and appears to magnify the cherry within. i may take a few more snapshots later, seeing as how this ice isn’t going to melt anytime soon this [...]

Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus) Sweet Pea is native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Sicily east to Crete. Unlike most peas, the seeds of the sweet pea are poisonous. The seeds contain a neurotoxin, and should not be eaten. The illness caused by the ingestion of sweet peas is known as odoratism, or sweet pea [...]

A jellyfish, Aequorea macrodactyla A lobate ctenophore (Bathycyroe fosteri) which is very common and abundant near the mid-Atlantic ridge. (5 cm tall) The Census for Marine Life, a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations, estimates that about 230,000 species of marine animals have been described, and that there could be a total [...]

Floating belly up in the Pacific, this is the unbelievable sight of the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth – killed by a passing ship. The body of the giant blue whale was found by researchers from Oregon State University in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California. They came across [...]