On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

Despite the Caribbean Sea witnessing some of the worst episodes of mass coral bleaching over the last year, a reef in ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name ...

Researchers documented how cruise ship anchors can harm some of the oldest species of marine life in Antarctica.

Scientists were surprised to find a rare 'wart' octopus and 'zombie' sea sponge in deep sea footage. The video, which was captured by marine explorers in the US, showed two profoundly rare views from ...

The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.

This week’s beachcombing survey brought in a fresh batch of sargassum washed ashore — and with it, some of the ocean’s most elusive hitchhikers: sargassum shrimp. These tiny crustaceans, often ...

The sargassum swimming crab is a remarkable pelagic crustacean that thrives among the drifting mats of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Though primarily associated with ...

Nine new triterpene glycosides, erylosides F1−F4 (1−4), M (5), N (6), O (7), P (8), and Q (9), along with previously known erylosides F (10) and H (11) were isolated from the sponge Erylus formosus ...

According to the study, seaweed from the Sargasso Sea could have spread to the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean due to stronger-than-usual westerly winds in 2009-10; the normal surface currents in ...

Trending News: Astonishingly, the ocean teems with brainless creatures that thrive using instinct and nerve networks. Jellyfish, sea sponges, starfish, sea cucumbers ...

A sunset on the Caribbean Sea viewed from Bonaire. (Photo Credit: Nicole Edenedo) Perhaps the most underrated of the ABC Islands (Aruba and Curacao being the others), Bonaire is strategically ...