Scientists uncover devastating damage to marine life 16 years after BP oil disaster - In the years after the 2010 BP oil ...

The oxygen in about every other breath we take comes from microscopic cells—phytoplankton—drifting in the surface of the ...

In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined.

Scientists discovered a giant underwater mountain. And it's teeming with deep sea life. An endeavor aboard the Falkor (too) — a 363-foot (111-meter) research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean ...

A rare assemblage of micro- and macro-fossils found in a roadside outcrop in South China, featuring thin ribbons, branching shapes and a tiny balloon on a stalk, offers a glimpse of marine life after ...

A new use has emerged for a technology revolutionizing ocean research, led by marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. The research ...

With this jaw-dropping image (pun intended) of a rare Bryde’s whale about to consume a heart-shaped baitball, photographer Rafael Fernández Caballero has been named the Ocean Photographer of the Year ...

A marine iguana ‘mid-sneeze’, a troupe of skeleton shrimps that has colonized a gorgonian coral and a spaceship-like jellyfish seemingly departing Earth’s atmosphere are among the wonderful finalists ...

The Texas Sea Life Center opens a new wildlife hospital to expand rehabilitation efforts and help more injured animals ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...