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 ...

Written by a team of European experts from the marine sciences, "Navigating the Future VI" discusses how the biodiversity ...

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

Researchers have identified two starfish species in ancient ritual offerings unearthed 33 years ago in Tula, Mexico.

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.

Decades ago, Shigeyuki Yamato scanned the shallow coastal waters of southeastern Japan and saw something stand out from the ...

To our species, the event appears extraordinary or violent. But nature is commonly ruthless. In the dark deep sea, home to ...