The Associated Press’ most striking images from nature in 2025 show existence as fragile as an albino turtle hatchling among its peers or a cicada’s translucent wings.

In the animal kingdom, the creatures with the biggest hearts – relative to their size – are often the tiniest among us.

In the ocean, different animals have their own unique self-defence strategies to help them survive predators. Some, like ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive ...

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures ...

Blue whales don’t just hold the title for the biggest animal on the planet today. The truth is that they’re […] ...

Scientists searching for novel ways to fight cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead tucked away inside the cells of the bowhead whale. The findings, published in the journal Nature, ...

Dr. Gruber is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. One afternoon in January 2024, off the island of Dominica in the Atlantic Ocean, a sperm whale named Pinchy and I drifted calmly at the ...

A dead sperm whale that washed up on a Nantucket beach is making waves for local officials who are trying to move it. The 50-foot, 104,000-pound male sperm whale appeared on the island off ...

A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could be dragged out to sea by Thanksgiving. By Mike Ives A dead sperm whale — the ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

A 2-year-old humpback whale that was stranded on a beach north of Yachats, Oregon, has been euthanized and removed. A young humpback whale that was euthanized on Monday has been removed from the ...