The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

When you think of great swimmers, animals like dolphins, fish, or penguins probably come to mind. But the animal kingdom is ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

Snapping shrimp are mostly solitary, with some species working together in colonies. Read here to learn about how their social systems work.

The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the largest animal on the planet, but it is critically ...

Jellyfish Day honors one of Earth’s oldest and most fascinating creatures, glowing reminders of resilience beneath the waves.

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a ...

A couple taking a sunrise walk along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina ended up using a traffic cone to ...

Scientists say sea monster is a new kind of animal. This unidentified specimen belonging within Relicanthidae is a sea creature that was previously thought to be a giant sea anemone (order Actiniaria) ...