Weddell seal pups living in the Antarctic need to learn how to hold their breath and get in and out of the water.

While the GBR is known for its corals, the rocky reefs of the GSR are connected by another key ecosystem: kelp..“Jeez, talk ...

Marine animals shrink more during periods of climate warming, according to a study spanning nearly 500 million years of Earth ...

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

For centuries, enormous fossilized teeth found along coastlines led people to believe dragons once roamed the Earth. The real ...

Before the introduction of Christianity to the British Isles, and before the Viking raids, what is now England was occupied ...

Spider Crab. Image by Tsarli at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The ocean, covering more than ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge ...

World Ocean Day is celebrated every year on 8 June 2026. Many of these species have faced decades of threats from overfishing, habitat loss, pollution and climate change. The Indian Ocean is home to ...

Three years ago, during an expedition at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska, a submarine detected a golden orb that contrasted with surrounding rocks. Its smooth, organic surface did not resemble that ...

Quick Take What Lies In the Deep An Entirely New Underwater World What This Tells Us About Deep-Sea Creatu... Nearly three miles beneath the ocean’s surface exists a world rarely seen by human eyes.