As the tide recedes from the Bay of Rest, mud flats lined with mangrove trees are left exposed. It’s a dichotomy of environments as the seafloor shifts from an underwater habitat to part of the land.

The nation of the Philippines is made of nearly 8,000 islands in the western Pacific. Mindoro Island is the seventh largest, and one of the more populated, but it’s also the only home of a critically ...

Scientists followed the old route of a 1912 expedition in northeast India and found a long-lost creature burrowing in the mud, a study said. Photo from Nilanjan Mukherjee / Felis Creations A ...