In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.

This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or ...

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don’t pay for the chromatograph I use in my experiments, but they do pay for the electricity to run it.

7 sea creatures we can’t believe are real. ... However, in 2023, deep-sea explorer Matthew Mulrennan captured video footage that may depict a live baby colossal squid in the Southern Ocean, ...

The OceanGate Titan submersible, designed to ferry curious billionaires and adventurers to the Titanic wreck site (the original disaster had inspired James Cameron’s iconic 1997 movie, Titanic ), ...

A massive ocean survey finds plastic in every layer of the North Atlantic, revealing how deeply it has invaded marine ecosystems.

From an unprecedented underwater dance competition to pulse-pounding recreations of terrifying shark attacks, Discovery’s ...

This was the first time scientists had witnessed a clearly active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge, a volcanic mountain chain that stretches about 40,000 miles around the globe, like the seams ...

Two research expeditions have captured the first footage of two squid species — a colossal squid and a glacial glass squid — swimming in the deep sea.