Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa, named after the Scripps family group that helped fund the study, has a pentagonal body and ...

The new species’ sponge-dwelling habitat is “unique” and “unusual,” researchers said. Frillgobies are usually “relatively ...

An ocean expedition to a dynamic marine realm off the little-explored Chilean coast — with seeps and vents emitting nutrients ...

A pod of sea creatures leaped through the air off the coast of California as “excited” boaters were lucky enough to see the ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

California sea lions are in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary year round, and their population is increasing.

When fishermen found the endangered loggerhead sea turtle off Vancouver Island in February, she was listlessly floating in a ...

A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week.

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

A German-American research team has discovered two highly unusual bacterial species in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from ...

"This species of scallop has been extinct for almost 2 million years," the poster from North Carolina told Newsweek.

In the vast ocean, you might think there's safety in numbers for fish consider to be "prey" as they seek to elude predators.