The North Atlantic right whale now numbers an estimated 384 animals, up eight whales from the previous year, according to a ...

A rare sighting of a baby dugong off Alor in East Nusa Tenggara has sparked renewed attention to the importance of protecting ...

Oceanographic magazine reported this week on new research focused on a tiny crustacean called Corophium volutator. This ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

New research unveils 14 previously unknown marine species, offering fresh insight into life hidden in the ocean’s depths.

Baby platypuses are irresistibly cute. Their tiny bills, soft fluffy fur, and awkward little flippers make them seem like ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key ...

If you and your new companion are fond of the briny blue, we've got more than 150+ ocean dog names to help you find the ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

The first animals to inhabit the Earth may have been sea sponges, a new study by geochemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suggested. In their work, the researchers linked ...

Five Outer Banks beach houses collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean within 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon, marking the most destructive day for Hatteras Island since houses began crumbling into the sea five ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...