About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species.

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

The researchers found that climate change is contributing to the spread of harmful fungi, creating more favorable conditions ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

A study in Marine Pollution Bulletin reveals record-high marine litter in deep waters, highlighting the urgent environmental crisis in the Mediterranean.

Fly migration has been part of written human history for millennia. In the book of Exodus, when the pharoah of Egypt didn’t let Moses’s people go, God sent a plague of flies to change his mind. Then ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

Levels of lead and other heavy metals spiked in L.A.’s coastal waters after the January fires, raising serious concerns for ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Sea moss (Chondrus crispus), also known as Irish sea moss or Irish moss, may have benefits for immune, thyroid, heart, and gut health. This type of algae also contains quite a few nutrients ...

This isn’t the first time a mysterious object from the sea has left the public puzzled. Just last spring, beachgoers were stunned when a massive, bloodsucking sea creature, roughly the size of a ...