Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

Sargassum, a brown free-floating seaweed that is abundant in the ocean, is again washing up on area beaches from Surfside to ...

A peculiar-looking fish washed up on the shores of Seaside Beach in Oregon, leaving some fascinated by its freakish appearance.

The smell, an odor like rotten eggs, is the sargassum piles decomposing, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Floating sea anemones are rarely seen on land because they spend their lives drifting in the open ocean, clinging to floating debris.

Plastic Odyssey, a 40-metre floating lab, is on a global mission to combat plastic pollution by recycling waste into valuable ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

Then, in 2003, a dead colossal squid was found floating off New Zealand’s ... we are finding out that “deep-sea animals are really fragile, and really beautiful.” ...

The shores of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have once again become the final resting place for scores of Velella velella ...

Advertisement Advertisement Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep sea mining in international waters. The U.S.’s Executive Order circumvents the ...

Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very different on the surface than they do in their natural habitat. The sea pig, for example, is typically more uniform when crawling ...