Pockets of water exist that are so salty they behave more like dense syrup than seawater. These deep, hidden lakes are called ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

There were two sisters. They were partners, queens, warriors who liberated Vietnam from the Han dynasty. They united coastal ...

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

An "odd-looking" deep-sea fish recently washed ashore on an Oregon beach to the surprise of a local aquarium. The Seaside ...

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) has documented sea turtle activities and the status of shoreline habitat along 35 miles of coastline since 1982. This area ...

Imagine a world where the ocean is so cold that most life would freeze within minutes, yet one remarkable creature swims ...

For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.