At Caltech, researchers have turned living jellyfish into low-cost, remotely controlled ocean robots — creating real-life ...

New discovery of a fragile ecosystem beneath undersea volcano leaves researchers baffled. They fear it may be vulnerable to ...

Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to color and some of the most dazzling displays can be found in the animal kingdom. From the deep ocean to dense tropical rainforests, creatures all over the ...

A "community" has been uncovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers have found a thriving ecosystem of animal life in an unlikely place: beneath hydrothermal vents under the seafloor ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

After years of tagging, monitoring, and studying the habits of great white sharks, researchers at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station made a startling discovery. They found that the sharks ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced critical habitat designations today for five threatened coral species living in the Pacific Ocean. The agency’s final rule protects 92 ...

The animals include sea anemones, urchins, shrimp and a squat lobster. The team also found a fossil that may be from a new species of ancient whale, Virmani says, but this has yet to be confirmed.

The arms of an underwater robot helped uncover communities of giant tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath warm vents in the Pacific Ocean. “Animals are able to live beneath ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world bursting with color—far more vibrant than many of us realize. From neon-bright fish to spotted crustaceans, some of the most colorful sea animals on ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time marker. According to a study published on February 10th in the journal ...