Crop circles step aside! A giant ice disk has been found on the Presumpscot River in Maine. The fascinating phenomenon is attracting thousands of onlookers, including ducks.

Ever wonder if the animals you see outside your window in winter are doing OK? Don’t worry – they’re doing better out there than you would.

Short-lived insects, like crickets, “get old,” – that is, lose some of their physical abilities – before they die, new research shows.

New clues from fossils from the oldest soils on Earth suggest that multicellular, land-dwelling organisms might have emerged much earlier than we thought.

Singing humpback whales from different ocean basins seem to be picking up musical ideas from afar, and incorporating these new phrases and themes into their songs.

A new analysis has found that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40% faster than a United Nations panel estimated 5 years ago.

Researchers have said that Totten Glacier, a behemoth with enough ice to raise sea levels by 11 feet (3.4 meters), appears to be melting. Now, they say 4 glaciers west of Totten, and a handful farther east, are also losing ice.

The elusive fossa, deepsea corals and a tropical frog which has developed resistance to a deadly fungus. Here are 3 stories from 2018 that remind us how awesome the animal world is.

We can’t feel Earth rotating because we’re all moving with it, at the same constant speed.

At Earth’s South Pole, high noon happens only once a year, on the December solstice. And meanwhile, the North Pole is getting its only midnight.

A new study suggests that a tsunami of cosmic energy from a supernova killed off large ocean animals – including the huge megalodon shark – 2.6 million years ago.