Marine animals shrink more during periods of climate warming, according to a study spanning nearly 500 million years of Earth ...

Seals, penguins and fish are featured in the nonprofit’s annual competition to inspire care for the world’s oceans ...

The Ocean Photographer of the Year contest announced the finalists in its 2024 competition. Photos show underwater wildlife including sea turtles, sharks, whales, and coral reefs. The winners of the ...

For centuries, enormous fossilized teeth found along coastlines led people to believe dragons once roamed the Earth. The real ...

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish aid marine food webs and carbon storage, revealing how climate change reshapes oceans and ...

A team of scientists led by CU Boulder has identified 30 new areas critical for conserving biodiversity in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. In a study published Aug. 15 in the journal ...

Over the past 500 years, approximately 500 land-based animal species have become extinct as a result of human activity. In the ocean, where scientists count only 15 or so such losses, the numbers ...

Every summer, many Australians head to the ocean to swim, surf, sail, kayak, and walk along the beach. But humans are not alone when we use the ocean. Fish, seals, dolphins, sharks, jellyfish, turtles ...

Far out in the South Atlantic Ocean, invisible to the South African coastline, diver Pascal Van Erp surfaced with an abandoned lobster cage covered in algae and other marine organisms. He pulled it up ...