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'Sexy Mantis,' obscene orangutan and prancing sparrowhawk feature in 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife AwardsPhoto gallery The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards has unveiled its finalists for 2026, so let's all have a good laugh at nature.
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Watch the world's smallest crocodiles snatch bats in their hidden underground lair — a behavior never seen beforeVIDEO Live Science can exclusively reveal a video of Gabon's mysterious cave-dwelling dwarf crocodiles snatching bats in a never-before-seen hunting behavior, ahead of the series premiere of "Africa: Earth's Wild Home."
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warnsOur planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and sustainable future.
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SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit for the first time, then returns early and explodesSpaceX got its Starship rocket into orbit, but after a tense few minutes of comms and the loss of an engine, the call was made to end the mission early.
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US heading for unprecedented El Niño winter: Here's what to expectA supercharged El Niño is underway in the Pacific, with wide reaching — and often surprising — effects across the United States.
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'At some point we're going to have to react': How El Niño, climate change, and crime are pushing the Amazon rainforest over the brinkLive Science spoke with Amazon researcher Bernardo Flores about how El Niño could help drive Earth's largest tropical rainforest past a globe-altering tipping point.
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Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern PacificA rare sighting of a bigfin squid near an underwater mountain off California is the first confirmed live observation of the bizarre animal in the northeastern Pacific, researchers say.
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Ocean 'under unprecedented strain' as El Niño helps supercharge warming to record levelsThe Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that the daily global sea surface temperature has reached its highest level since records began.
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Nocturnal dodo? Study suggests we were very wrong about Mauritius' iconic flightless birdResearchers continue to rage against the dumb-dodo myth with more evidence that the iconic flightless bird was smarter than early accounts suggest — and might have even been nocturnal.
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'Like a jail door slamming': Male sperm whales' mysterious rhythmic clanging is the loudest communication sound of any animalResearchers have studied a mysterious rhythmic clanging noise produced by male sperm whales.
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Super El Niño may push an already stressed climate ecosystem across a critical threshold, climate change researcher saysInterview Live Science spoke with climate change researcher Jong-Seong Kug about how a super El Niño could cause lasting damage to our world.
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Antarctica just experienced minus 119 F, Earth's coldest temperature since 2012 — here's whyToo hot? Head to the Concordia research station in Antarctica, where "astronauts of ice" just experienced near-record-breaking cold.
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'Demon cavefish' discovered under WWII chemical weapons facility in AlabamaIntroducing demon cavefish (Demogorgonichthys arcanus); the rare eyeless predators that have been hiding in plain sight below a military base for decades.
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Mice on 'godforsaken' frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions 'not remotely compatible with long-term human survival'Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile.
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'These are striking forecasts': Super El Niño keeps getting even more likely, and it could bring a humanitarian crisisForecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather.
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'It affects your daily life suddenly': Sea level researcher explains why once-in-a-century floods could become the new normalInterview Live Science spoke with sea level expert Sönke Dangendorf about how human-caused sea-level rise is increasing extreme water levels, as once-in-a-century flooding events become decadal.
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Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil belonged to a group of the largest land animals everResearchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.
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'A completely different story': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the first vertebrate land dwellers weren't what we thought, researchers claimOur ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found near Chicago.
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A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica — and it's probably not coming backAn area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as researchers investigate the links between sea ice loss and global warming.
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Elusive dwarf fox, feared extinct, photographed for the first time on island off YucatánThe first-ever photos of a Cozumel fox prove that the mysterious island predator is still alive in Mexico but in dire need of conservation, according to researchers.
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Mysterious 'cold blob' in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening — and that's bad news for the US East CoastThe Atlantic's enigmatic "cold blob" has once again been linked to a weakening of key ocean currents and a devastating climate tipping point.
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Artemis III crew revealed: NASA announces astronauts for 'one of history's most complex missions'NASA's Artemis III crew has been revealed. The astronauts will launch into low Earth orbit next year to test docking with commercial lunar landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
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Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here's why scientists are enthusiastic.Google has applied for an experimental mosquito release permit to deploy millions of non-biting southern house mosquitoes that it has infected with the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, in an effort to reduce mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus.
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China launches new Long March 12B rocket, reportedly without any safety warningChina's Long March 12B rocket has blasted off on its maiden voyage carrying more Qianfan "Thousand Sails" satellites, during a surprise launch for which there were reportedly no airspace notices.
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