A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef once it reaches its final resting place off Florida’s Gulf Coast. Competing diving businesses are vying for the massive ship ...

When animals have a slow metabolic rate, they do not age but rather have a prolonged life. Resistance to diseases and genetics are also factors that can contribute to the longevity of an animal.

A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, ...

The Autism Resources Fair is free and no registration is required. Registration is required, however, for the keynote address ...

Greenpeace activists have scaled a building outside the Foreign Office in protest over delays to signing an international treaty protecting oceans. Four protesters unfurled a banner as they suspended ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Sea otters, or Enhydra lutris (their scientific name), have recently been spotted making kelp forests their new home. Sea ...

A new study from the University of Maine's Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) and Darling Marine Center is helping to ...

The ice covering the newly discovered ecosystem belonged to the George VI Ice Shelf, a vast ice shelf "trapped" between the Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island. Earlier this ...

Also known as the cow shark, the sixgill is considered rare amongst oceanologists. Which meant that when deep sea scientists ...

A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced fish from protected waters near Antarctica, siding with U ...