A New England Aquarium researcher played a key part on an international team that has discovered what it believes to be a new population of the largest animals on Earth. Every group of blue whales ...

Yi-Kai Tea recently returned from a 35-day expedition to explore the deep seas surrounding a new marine park in the Indian Ocean. They gathered thousands of specimens.

Some of the most colorful sea animals that live beneath the waves are bright, beautiful ... This almost neon-bright species, native to the Indian Ocean and West Pacific, ...

The more we explore and protect the ocean, the more we benefit, whether in the form of economic returns or scientific ...

In 1997, almost 60 years after the West Indian Ocean coelacanth's rediscovery, scientists found another coelacanth species in Indonesia. Known locally as 'raja laut' ('king of the sea'), it was ...

Images were released earlier this month of several previously unknown fish discovered in the Indian Ocean off of Australia's remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.

These tiny candy-colored animals protect coral reefs. ... into the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. In some survey locations, researchers found thousands of dead urchins. ...

AUSTRALIA -- Newly discovered sea creatures were found at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. A blind eel, deep-sea batfishes, spider fish, and others were all discovered and revealed on a seafloor in ...

They’re the largest animal on Earth currently, and one of the largest animals to have ever lived on our planet in all of history. Still, the magnificent creatures have been on the endangered ...

A project to map the Indian Ocean’s seagrass, a carbon sink more powerful than terrestrial forest, will enable participating countries to protect the habitat, according to the groups initiating ...

The Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) is a 1.2 million-square-mile (3 million square kilometers) ... He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like weird animals and climate change.