There's a lot of ground between puttering around with your face strapped to a snorkel and managing the dangers, equipment, certification and expenses of scuba diving. Surface-supplied diving systems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only spider species known to live almost entirely underwater. This is quite an ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A team of evolutionary biologists including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York have shown that some Anolis lizards, or anoles, have adapted to rebreathe ...

With a GoPro and some patience, biology professor Lindsey Swierk discovered a Costa Rican Anolis lizard in 2019 deploying a bubble horn on its snout underwater. The reptile wasn’t preparing for battle ...

Some anole lizards have a newfound superpower: They can breathe underwater by trapping air in a bubble on their snouts. What’s more, these reptiles can stay submerged for nearly 20 minutes by ...

Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive. By Sara Novak Water anoles, semiaquatic ...

A new underwater tent can give divers a brief respite — the floating pocket of air could either let divers take a breather or help them prevent potentially dangerous cases of decompression sickness.

A lizard that lives next to streams in the mountains of Costa Rica appears to have evolved a kind of scuba tank to help it stay underwater for long periods. It can remain submerged for at least 16 ...

Along a river in Costa Rica, small creatures dive into the water to escape predators and use bubbles to breathe, researchers said. Lindsey Swierk For an animal not much larger than a pencil, there ...

A new ultra-lightweight robot can swim underwater – before emerging to fly through the air like a bird. The flapping-wing ...