Scientists uncover rare parasitic snails living inside sea cucumbers in Japan—offering new insights into unusual animal relationships.

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We ...

The orcas clearly liked this activity because different whales were recorded preparing the stems eight times and rolling the ...

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, the Dumbo octopus in this YouTube video looks like it waltzed ...

Reefs cover less than 1 percent of the ocean floor yet shelter about a quarter of all marine species and buffer shorelines ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

We know surprisingly little about the deep ocean or the strange creatures that live there. These unusual animals have evolved ...

The good life just got better. From Nantucket to Newport Beach, here's how top designers are channeling yachts, the ocean ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

Exploration on Google Earth led to an astonishing discovery: a massive rock formation protruding from a remote desert landscape, revealing the remains of an ancient seabed. This desolate area, once ...

Experiments with these big hollow spheres are proving an innovative source of energy storage that could power millions of homes.

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest ...