Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to ...

Researchers found unimagined forms of life under the A-84 iceberg nearly 30 kilometers long and 510 square kilometers in area ...

The Asian clam has found its way to the Dutch Wadden Sea. This is shown by field researchers from the Netherlands Institute ...

A seastar that specializes in living on pieces of wood that have fallen into the ocean is among the top 10 new marine species ...

A gigantic iceberg cracked off Antarctica on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen daylight in decades. Researchers decided to search the seafloor under the freshly exposed ocean. What ...

It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

How exactly does that much life thrive under so much ice? In other parts of the ocean, photosynthesizing organisms rain down nutrients to sustain benthic creatures. But none do so under the dark ...

With documented swimming speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, mako sharks represent the world’s fastest elasmobranch species.

The continental shelf sometimes extends for hundreds of miles out to sea. Coral reefs, benthic life, and a huge variety of ocean fish take advantage of these shallow waters, nutrient-rich and ...

Every year, Scripps Benthic Invertebrate Collection Curator Greg Rouse and collaborators discover new species of marine life, especially during exploratory expeditions to mysterious and fascinating ...

Cobia catch rates have fallen off in the South Atlantic—off Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina—and there is rising ...