Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living ...

If the experiment works, the thousands of miles of fibre-optic cables that already crisscross the ocean floor could be turned ...

For centuries, the Kraken haunted the edges of maritime maps — a monstrous sea creature said to rise from the depths and drag entire ships into the abyss. Long dismissed as folklore, new research is ...

A sample of ocean crust, turned upside down, reveals tubeworms and other organisms. Mónika Naranjo-Shepherd / Schmidt Ocean Institute CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 In summer 2023, researchers deployed a ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...