Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

Roughly two decades ago, a group of scientists embarked to Tetepare, a remote island in the southwestern corner of the ...

Plastic risk maps reveal hidden ocean hotspots where wildlife faces harm from ingestion, entanglement, and chemicals.

The world's largest and deepest ocean, the Pacific, has some truly strange animals that live in its depths. The Atlantic Ocean is a little smaller and more underrated, but it still has some pretty ...

In general, sea anemones are known to keep their tube-like bodies relatively vertical and are considered immobile, researchers said. “Some species have adapted the ability to swim for predator evasion ...

Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were ...

Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...

A major cycle of Pacific Ocean temperatures is shifting due to climate change, and that could drive decades of megadrought in ...

The arms of an underwater robot helped uncover communities of giant tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath warm vents in the Pacific Ocean. “Animals are able to live beneath ...

When the Palisades fire raged and winds whipped ash and debris into the Pacific Ocean, scientists with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration — already out in boats doing water-quality ...

At Caltech, researchers have turned living jellyfish into low-cost, remotely controlled ocean robots — creating real-life cyborgs for deep-sea exploration and environmental sensing.