With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Now, to keep Florida’s reef alive, scientists have to breed corals almost entirely in labs on land, where the water is clean ...

These intelligent sea creatures mesmerize with their fluid movements and quick colour changes. They embody the ocean’s ...

Certain creatures like the black corals and tuatara have been thriving on Earth since centuries. In the animal kingdom, most of the longest-living species are found in the oceans.

Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...

It’s going! It’s going!” someone shouts. We hurry up a short flight of steps to an illuminated aquarium tank hidden behind a ...

Humpback whales have been known to swim 5,000 miles from tropical grounds to colder grounds for more productive feedings and ...

Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...

The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance is safeguarding Florida coral as researchers search for a cure for stony coral tissue loss disease.

New research reveals how resident algae altered the genome of these fabled sea creatures, allowing them to access more nutrients.

You might be used to seeing corals planted in one spot. That’s because most of them permanently attach themselves to an area ...

From a ballet of white-tip reef sharks to a cardinal fish releasing freshly hatched babies from its mouth, these underwater ...