How do deep-sea creatures avoid getting crushed by the water pressure? Unlike animals living on land or in shallower water, ...

Two remarkably preserved fossils found in China suggest an ancient amphibian may have spent its entire life in the ocean, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, ...

Scientists discovered a forgotten Mediterranean Sea creature hidden in centuries-old Italian paintings, revealing its surprising ecological history.

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Beachgoers out enjoying the balmy weather this weekend across Southern California came across a curious sight – thousands of shriveled jellyfish-looking sea creatures washed up on the shoreline. Blue ...

My colleagues and I mapped activity in the northeast Pacific of "dark" fishing vessels—boats that turn off their location devices or lose signal for technical reasons. In our new study published in ...

Time doesn’t heal all wounds. If you’re an injured comb jellyfish, you might just need another of your species to meld with. That’s what biologists at the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...