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Industrial activity has added up to 15 decibels of noise to the Santa Barbara Channel, new research has found. Hear the difference.

T. rex intelligence was likely much closer to that of modern-day crocodiles than primates — a perfectly respectable amount of smarts for a therapod.

As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?

Officials have decided to ban salmon fishing on the California coast for a second year. Salmon populations have dropped after the state's last drought.

Researchers suspect that starvation may have killed half off all gray whales off the Pacific Coast of North America. What happened to their food source?

Using machines that measure brain activity, scientists were able to show that dogs understand that words refer to some of their favorite objects.

Jason Miller photographed the jaguar on Dec. 20. It's the eighth individual jaguar spotted in the wild in the U.S. since the 1990s.