The deep ocean is home to the largest ecosystem on Earth, but we’ve only explored a tiny portion of it. Despite the enormity ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how ...

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...

Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

Plastic found inside a dead black-footed albatross. Image by Dan Clark /USFWS. New research has found that even small amounts ...

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) ...

Learn how these slow-moving creatures recycle nutrients through their poop to keep coral reefs thriving and oceans balanced.

From dogs and cats to dairy cows and sea turtles, animals around the world are suffering from various cancers, obesity, ...