To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.

Far beneath the wavetops, down into the dark ocean depths, a rarely seen crustacean makes its home. It's called Alicella ...

Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden ...

Only a tiny fraction of the deep ocean is explored, leaving 66% of Earth’s surface largely unseen. Researchers urge global, ...

The sea lions, the clam chowder, the sunny weather and surfers all will be there. But this year, visitors also will notice something different. The Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, a historic wooden ...

The bottom few thousand feet of the ocean are not immune; they’ve sucked up another third of that excess warmth. But the uppermost skin of the sea, down to about 250 feet, is warming up the ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

SeaSplat is an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean's optical effects to generate images of underwater environments reveal an ocean scene's true colors. Researchers paired the ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific ...

The underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is heading to eruption for the first time in a ...