The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

A marine heat wave is defined as a period of at least five days with temperatures on the water measuring at 90% greater than ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

A tourist has captured rare footage of a marine mammal known as a skunk dolphin because of its coloring. The elusive marine ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

Many populations improved because the Marine Mammal Protection Act worked.

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape ...

In a small, rented lab in the port of Los Angeles in May, Keith Matassa was working through a backlog of bodies on ice. Using a surgical knife, he carefully removed a California sea lion fetus from a ...

Far below the surface of the South China Sea, a creature with “glass-like” skin was discovered. Greg Nerantzakis via Unsplash Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...