Category: Nature

As more Americans hit the beach this summer, there has also been a major uptick in shark sightings and, in some cases, attacks, including one on a 12-year-old girl in Maryland. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports for In Depth TODAY from Longboat Key, Florida, where one residential neighborhood has droves of sharks in the canals behind…

Patrick Dykstra goes to the Maldives to investigate a rare nature phenomenon – manta rays feeding in a tornado formation.

Towns from Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Czechia got together to seek joint recognition.

In a fascinating clip from the BBC documentary Blue Planet II, narrator David Attenborough elegantly explains how the beautiful but incredibly lethal Portuguese Man O’ War catches food underwater with its tentacles while still remaining partially above the surface.

Daisy was eager to get outside and say hello to some unexpected visitors — a family of bears taking a dip in the backyard swimming pool. Video: Tiffany Kress via Storyful.

A man is in serious condition with head and upper-body injuries after he was bitten by a crocodile near a coastal fishing village on the Cape York Peninsula.