Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

Have you ever seen a diving beetle? They’re one of my favorite animals. They live underwater and breathe air from a bubble attached to their butts. I talked about all the ways animals breathe ...

Animals have evolved all manner of methods to evade danger. For one lizard species living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, their unique escape tactic involves a makeshift oxygen tank that allows ...

The 2020 Underwater Photographer of the Year contest (UPY) has just crowned its winners. More than 5,500 images were ...

'Green & Red', Highly Commended, Macro category: A juvenile puffer filefish against the perfect background: a pop art palette of prime colours... and a white dot.. Celebrating photography beneath the ...

When we think of underwater animals, we usually picture graceful fish or majestic sea turtles. What we don’t typically imagine are spiders and snakes. Let’s face it—most humans regard snakes and ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish ...

Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build ...