A live three-foot yellow-bellied venomous sea snake washed ashore Honoli’i Beach in Hawaii last week. Officials have since ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

From the Titanic to today’s record-breaking mega-liners, this ranking explores the largest passenger ships in history, from ...

There have only been a couple changes to the list of the 10 most popular dog names in Seattle in the last few years, writes ...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

On 26th January 2025, a team of researchers off the Canary Islands made an extraordinary discovery: a black seadevil ...

Local tribes and nonprofits have received a grant to lead the planning effort to bring back the furry mammals, which have ...

The deep sea is a strange and mysterious place. With the vast majority of the ocean still unexplored, it’s no surprise that some of the creatures living down there are unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

Saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) are the largest living reptiles on Earth. They’re even bigger than the fearsome ...