Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

This is one creative way of conducting research: eight sea lions from Australia have been equipped with cameras in order to ...

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists’ ability to research ...

Imagine wandering through a tide pool, your eyes tracing the mysterious shapes hidden in the sand and seaweed. Suddenly, a ...

(500 kilograms), making it the heaviest invertebrate on the planet ... marine environments are really useful to humans. There are [sponges] that have anti-cancer properties, that have ...

The deep sea has always been a realm of mystery, hiding creatures that defy imagination. Among these enigmatic beings is the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), a creature shrouded in myth ...

The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

The birth control sponge (aka the contraceptive sponge or “the sponge” for short), is a small, round sponge made from soft, squishy plastic. You put it deep inside your vagina before sex. The sponge ...

The presence of marine invertebrates on the fossil suggests it dates back to the Pleistocene era. However, the identity of the early human species it once belonged to remained unclear at the time.