Tiny amphipods cling to the limbs of a giant sea spider (Colossendeis colossea) 3,155 meters beneath the Southeast Pacific ...

The Bali Sea Turtle Society is gathered in Indonesia to allow families to help them release 180 baby sea turtles into the ...

The short answer is no. No single person, country, or organization owns the entire ocean. Instead, different parts of the ocean are governed under different rules. Coastal nations have authority over ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts During a recent monthlong expedition, a team of scientists conducted one of the most ...

A natural cold methane seep. (Schmidt Ocean Institute/ROV SuBastian) In 2018, Chinese geologists created a methane leak in ...

A suspected new species of sea star (Porcellanasteridae) rests on the seafloor at a depth of 3,961 meters. Researchers ...

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 ...

A "dinner plate jellyfish" imaged at 1,640 feet deep on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expedition in 2022. Credit: NOAA 2022, you flew by. Join Mashable as we look back at ...

The first global atlas of ocean light pollution shows that large swaths of the sea are squinting in the glare of humans’ artificial lights at night. From urbanized coastlines along the Persian Gulf to ...

Giant, phantasmagorical creatures dwell in the dark water. And when marine researchers lower robots into these depths, they're almost always spotting something rare or previously unknown to science.