Latest articles by Nick Garland

A humpback whale got awfully close to a marina in Alaska. What you will see in the following video is an example of bubble-net feeding in a humpback whale. The hunting technique generally allows groups of humpbacks to eat their prey with less effort.

Scientists never expected to find remains of saber-toothed cats in the grasslands of Argentina's Pampas region. But research indicates these animals hunted the plains of South America during the last ice age.

For 130 years a giant tree-like stump had baffled paleontologists. Was it a plant, an alga, a lichen or something entirely different? A fossil dug up in Saudi Arabia gave the last word in a new study – it was a humongous fungus.