It’s a deep-sea harbinger of doom. A rare “doomsday” creature known as the oarfish has washed ashore in the Canary Islands, ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

A recent megalodon clue has left many people convinced that this ancient predator is still roaming the waterways of the world ...

A kayaker in Chile was caught on camera being briefly swallowed by a humpback whale before getting spit back out.

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

This is because these jellies generally live in deep waters, down as far as 22,000 feet (6,700 m ... their arms around their food — usually plankton or small fish — and hoist them into ...

When you slurp an exotic Pacific oyster or throw fresh seafood on the BBQ this weekend, spare a thought for our local shellfish reefs—most of which have been destroyed or forgotten. Coastal ...