Scientists are speeding up the naming of deep-sea species before they vanish, using new tools to uncover life from below the ...

Deep sea mining has disastrous consequences for marine life, many of which are still unknown to oceanographers.

Scientists from Australia and Japan studying three trenches find ‘organisms have adapted strategies to filter things out of ...

The gulper eel ( Saccopharynx lavenbergi), also called a pelican eel, is roughly a meter of tail and mouth. This unusual fish, the only species in the genus Eurypharynx, slinks through the water as ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are ...

Freshwater and sea turtles may look similar, but neither one could survive in the other's territory for these reasons.

As Arctic sea ice melts, new life may emerge from the thaw. Researchers have discovered that bacteria beneath and along the melting ice are converting nitrogen gas into a form that fuels algae. The ...

The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage ...

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

This Sunday, Bethesda’s 10:00 am service is going to the dogs - and cats, birds, bunnies, and maybe even a lizard or two. The ...