Discover the brutal techniques used by some British birds to catch their prey - from impaling on spikes through to stabbing ...

A global study finds that everyday boat traffic can disrupt ocean animals like whales, sharks, and sea turtles - even without collisions.

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

Scientists aboard the Tara Pacific expedition have cataloged thousands of previously unknown microbial species living inside reef-building corals, revealing a vast reservoir of biological compounds ...

"I’ve been down 3,000 feet alone in the ocean, which has got to be one of the loneliest places on the planet," Widder says.

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

Scientists have captured footage of a sleeper shark farther south than ever before, suggesting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean is ...

City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long ...

The deep sea anglerfish lives in a place where sunlight never reaches and pressure crushes almost everything. In that darkness, evolution took a strange and unsettling path. Bioluminescent lures, ...

Beneath the waters of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) is a wonderland of marine life and seabirds — from towering kelp forests to adorable sea otters and the unmistakable tufted ...

Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have uncovered an array of remarkable finds off the coast of Argentina, including the world’s largest known Bathelia candida coral reef, 28 new animal ...

Scientists have recently discovered a newly recognized and threatening ocean event: marine darkwaves. According to Science Daily, a marine darkwave is a sudden, intense period of underwater darkness.