The glacial Arctic Ocean was not a barren ice desert but a breeding ground for the evolution of cold adaptation in marine ...

Giant manta rays can grow up to nine meters (30 feet) long with a disk size of seven meters (23 feet) across and weigh up to ...

Ian Clarke, Jocelyn Bachmann, Sophie Allen and Kai Ryall Ota’s project, titled Super El Niño Tracker, is a web app tracking El Niño’s effect on the Salish Sea and northeast Pacific. By analyzing past ...

This bootylicious 'Patrick Star' lives alongside dozens of species we've never seen before. (ROV SuBastian/ROV ...

As Pacific temperatures rise, animals usually deterred by California's chilly waters are making an appearance.

A group of scientists in Argentina discovered dozens of new species in the South Atlantic Ocean, shedding new light on one of the world’s most biologically dynamic regions.

Scientists just recognized a penguin species that had been hiding in plain sight for hundreds of thousands of years, and the ...

The newly named big-nosed lanternshark, Etmopterus bulbosus, is just 21 centimetres long but carries a surprisingly distinctive combination of features, including a bulbous snout, unusual thorn-like ...

UNESCO is growing its environmental DNA, or eDNA, expedition programme. This ambitious and cost-effective project can give usable ocean data in a couple of weeks using a small number of seawater ...

Scientists monitoring the deep ocean near the disaster site found that animal populations declined by as much as 80 percent, ...

How do four species of sharks share a rock barely 100 metres long in the middle of the Pacific? New research at Mexico’s Roca ...

A follow-up expedition to a different submarine canyon is planned for early 2027 ...