Two tiny sea creatures with translucent bodies found on the California coast are both new species. They’re sea slugs, part of the Dotidae family. And while they’re small — measuring less than a ...

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

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

I’ve been a diver for nearly 20 years. From spearfishing in kelp forests teeming with life off the California coast to ...

Explorers have uncovered a breathtaking discovery deep in the ocean, revealing a hidden world thriving around a giant creature’s remains.

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

Sea otters are one of the predators — one of the wolves, to continue the metaphor, to our urchin deer — keeping urchins in ...

The creature, which grows to about 12 inches (30cm) long, is known affectionately as Mr Blobby ... and lives in the deep sea, mainly off the southeastern coast of mainland Australia, the ...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

Scientists have shared footage from a rare sighting of a bluntnose sixgill shark spotted near the Phoenix Islands in the ...

The aquatic ecosystem has always been interesting to humans. It is one territory where we can not survive for long and its ...