Alligators aren’t just freshwater creatures. They swim to salty waters and back, munching on plenty of foods along the way ..read more

Sugar maple trees in the Upper Great Lakes region are more likely to have dying branches when there are signs of an earthworm invasion, a new study finds ..read more

Young loggerhead turtles can end up in very different places in the Atlantic depending on when they hatch ..read more

A biologist witnesses a coconut crab taking out a blue-footed booby and documents the balance of the animals in an Indian Ocean archipelago ..read more

A first-ever look at what pollinates the carnivorous Venus flytrap finds little overlap between pollinators and prey ..read more

A reconstruction of 20th-century hunting practices reveals why one species of Amazon river otters nearly went extinct while another persisted ..read more

A healthy population of cephalopods could be hiding nearby, though, a new study contends ..read more

The Asian common toad, an invasive species in Madagascar, produces a toxin in its skin that’s probably toxic to most of the island’s predators ..read more

Cameras attached to gentoo penguins off the Falkland Islands revealed that, despite the birds’ small size, their lobster krill prey can sometimes win in a fight ..read more

Other marine animals don’t appear to target land birds that end up in the Gulf of Mexico Wild ThingsAnimals,Ecology by Sarah Zielinski 12:00pm, May 21, 2019 GREAT LENGTHS  To find out what tiger sharks eat, fisheries ecologist Marcus Drymon (right) and colleagues dissected dead sharks and got live sharks to give up their stomach contents. Migratory birds turned up in about 40 percent of the sharks.M. DrymonIt all started when a small tiger shark barfed up a bunch of fe ..read more