Wildlife rangers will today begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed creatures ...

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment ...

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.

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

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 ...

Another deep-sea dweller washed up on a Carlsbad beach this week and its body now joins millions of other rare specimens being preserved for research at a lab in San Diego.

Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

The marine photographer who captured the footage said it could be the world's first recorded sighting of a black seadevil ...