An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

The ocean is filled with mystery, beauty, and life,but not all sea creatures are as fearsome as the myths suggest. In fact, many marine animals are incredibly friendly, curious, and even playful ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

A polar bear cools down on a pile of ice that was brought to its enclosure on a hot and sunny day at the Prague zoo, Czech ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...