A bald eagle's white head may make it look bald. But actually the name comes from an old English word, "balde," meaning white ...

Indian peafowl are a species in a group of birds called pheasants. The males are called peacocks, while the females are ...

High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the ...

Emperor penguins spend their entire lives on Antarctic ice and in its waters. They survive—breeding, raising young, and eating—by relying on a number of clever adaptations. These flightless birds ...

The sun sets over a quiet backyard garden. A red fox sneaks into the yard, its nose in the air, sniffing loudly—it smells ...

You probably know sea stars as starfish, the name sea stars are commonly known by. But sea stars aren’t really fish. Sea stars, like sea urchins and sand dollars, do not have backbones, which makes ...

Related to modern day snakes and monitor lizards, Tylosaurus proriger lived during the Cretaceous period about 85 million years ago. (It's not a dinosaur!) It dwelled in an ancient body of water ...

A fish swishes through the water just above a cluster of coral on the seafloor. Suddenly a hairy-looking, bloblike creature emerges from the coral, snags the fish in its mouth, and devours the snack.

Not far from the North Pole, the world is frozen for thousands of miles. Suddenly a snowy mound wiggles and reveals two dark eyes. The lump is transformed into the furry white body of a lone arctic ...

An American goldfinch soars through the warm spring air, it’s yellow feathers reflecting the sun. Suddenly the bird opens its ...

So. Many. Penguins! Journey to Antarctica to see the moment when a group of emperor penguin chicks jump into the ocean for their first swim. But while most emperor chicks jump about two feet into the ...