These floating barriers hold back the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s expansive ice flows, and their disappearance directly ties to ...

The most significant drivers of extinction are habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and invasive species. For the red ...

Meet the telescopefish, a ghostly predator with tubular eyes and a jaw that unhinges to swallow prey larger than itself.

Florida's Everglades is the largest stretch of undeveloped land in the easter U.S., and the area is literally crawling with ...

There is a reason we call ourselves the Blue Planet.

Meet the Atlantic wolffish, green humphead parrotfish, and other unusual species with extraordinary adaptations.

The term ocean animal covers an immense range of species, from shallow-water invertebrates to deep-sea predators inhabiting ...

Notable sightings along the way included the discovery of an extensive crinoid meadow at a depth of 9,100 meters (29,855 feet ...

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less of it than we have the surface of the moon.

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

Visitors to Seaside might be surprised, and a little grossed out, to find thousands of transparent, blubbery, worm-like ...

In the deep sea, there are places where chemicals and nutrients seep out of the sediment and into the water. These chemosynthetics-based ecosystems were discovered in 1977, and in the decades since, ...