"They are Silent Teachers," one researcher said.

Thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface, creatures that have never been formally named are vanishing before scientists ...

Off the western coast of Mexico, a "transparent" sea creature with horn-like appendages swam through the water, or it tried to at least. But something caught it and pulled it toward the surface.

A submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a deep-sea creature with “long,” sucker-covered arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Screenshot from video shared via Tang, Zheng and Zhang (2025) ...

Keith Matassa, founder of the Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance, performs a necropsy on a deceased dolphin with signs of domoic acid poisoning in Venice, California. Credit: Drew A. Kelley, ...

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In the dark depths of the ocean, food can be so scarce that animals may go months or even years between meals. Yet one ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Marine animals shrink more during periods of climate warming, according to a study spanning nearly 500 million years of Earth ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...

The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity was first produced in 1995 as a comprehensive resource for the public, the media, scientists, students, and policymakers to learn the various arguments ...