Watch New Zealand fishermen get the shock of their lives when a massive mako shark leaps into the air and lands on the front ...

More than 150 false killer whales have washed up on the coast of the Australian island state of Tasmania, with none of them ...

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field ...

Fish in the wild can tell humans apart! A study found that seabream recognize individual divers, following those who feed them while ignoring others. For years, scientific divers at a Mediterranean re ...

It is easy to believe that the black seadevil anglerfish, with its gaping maw of razor-like teeth, a bioluminescent rod sticking out of its head and lidless eyes used to scan the deepest, darkest ...

Eight green sea turtles stunned by the cold during a rare snowfall in Florida have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Jonathan the world's oldest tortoise lives a peaceful life on the tropical island of St. Helena with three other giant tortoises.

Conservationists are determined to protect the magnificent rays of the Pacific—whether that’s tracking them with acoustic ...

Alert readers of the print edition noticed a puzzling photo caption in my last column. When writing about gull identification ...

Research suggests that tropical riparian ecosystems – those found along rivers and wetlands – recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...