Shark teeth are “highly developed weapons built for cutting flesh, not resisting ocean acid,” Baum said. Sharks will go ...

The Indian Ocean region is undergoing a profound geopolitical transformation. From a relatively peripheral theater, it has ...

Change has been a constant at attraction, but it still has manatees, a giant aquarium and a conservation message. Coming soon ...

Conservationist Christina Hicks explains the tension between protecting marine life and depending on it for food, and how our ...

Named for their plump, pink, and rounded bodies, sea pigs are very abundant, but you are unlikely to ever see one, living as ...

Animals that researchers call “supersucklers” come back to nurse even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves.

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-old mystery with the first-ever live encounter of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly gives way to a near vertical shaft of vast darkness – an ocean sinkhole almost ...

A recent scientific breakthrough in the Arctic Ocean has pushed the boundaries of deep-sea research. During the Ocean Census Arctic Deep–EXTREME24 expedition, researchers uncovered an unexpected ...