Elise Poore

Scientists used 3D imaging to reconstruct the anatomy of Cambrian trilobites discovered buried under layers of volcanic ash.

A rare giant hoodwinker sunfish that washed ashore Gearhart beach in Oregon could be the largest of its species ever sampled.

Camera traps in Indonesian Borneo recorded a clouded leopard mother with her two cubs in the first footage of its kind.

From dangerous lion reserves to high mountain peaks, photographers go all out to capture the most spectacular images of our galaxy in this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition.

Watch rare footage of deep sea "octopus squid" reveal its bioluminescent photophores as it attacks an underwater camera.

A stunning photo of the peculiar parasitic plant species, Thismia thaithongiana, wins gold in the Plants and Fungus category of the World Nature Photography Awards.

Erratically thrashing and whirling smalltooth sawfish are stranding on beaches — and scientists don't know why they're behaving this way.

First-of-its-kind footage captures two coral snakes fighting over a wormlike creature in western Colombia.

Technical scuba divers found a rare pink handfish hidden among the wreckage of the SS Tasman.

A new species of deep-sea chimaera with a ghoulish appearance has been discovered in the Andaman Sea.

Video footage captures an egg-laying amphibian "nursing" its babies with a nutritious liquid similar to mammalian milk.

New research using artificial intelligence reveals that a decline in the North Pacific population of humpback whales between 2012 and 2021 coincided with the strongest marine heat wave recorded globally.

3D reconstructions of over 13,000 specimens have been collected as part of a collaborative project called openVertebrate.

Unlike other sea spiders that carry their eggs on their backs, male giant antarctic sea spiders spend two days gluing their eggs to the seafloor.

The adorable 1-year-old male calf was filmed enjoying playtime in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Remotely operated vehicle on a research dive captures close-up video of a beady-eyed gulper eel with a parasitic copepod permanently attached to its body.

First ever documented evidence of a fungus, suspected to be a Mycena species, growing on the body of a seemingly healthy frog.

Schmidt Ocean Institute spots a bioluminescent deep-sea worm that creates a hypnotizing display as it swims in circles.

Video footage from a new series captures thousands of ants building a living-raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool.

Cockroach larvae filmed hatching from their egg case in gruesome footage from National Geographic's "A Real Bug's Life."

Why are whales so big? Why are giraffe's necks so long? Here are the origins of 10 iconic features in the animal kingdom.

Rare sightings and haunting creatures of the deep appeared on beaches around the world this year — here are 10