Getting accurate information on animal species can be quite a challenge, especially when they live deep within the sea. One ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Eighteen years ago, farmed oyster larvae began disappearing in mass die-offs, mystifying hatchery ...

This National Science Week (9-17 August), join the Australian National Maritime Museum in a deep dive into the science of the ocean. Enjoy interactive ...

Different governments have taken different approaches to this competition. Norway is trying to replace immigrants with the ...

Jurassic Park adapts the Michael Chrichton novel of the same name and sets up the series’ narrative conceit: Dinosaurs have ...

Scientists were puzzled as to why it was that the electric rays of Guadalupe Island, Mexico, were so confident in the face of pretty sizable sharks. Turns out, they can zap these would-be predators – ...

There’s something magical about pushing your cart through the distinctive red-arched entrance of The Salvation Army Family Store on Kidder Street in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, knowing that for ...

Tucked away in suburban Ohio sits a grocery store so bizarre, so magnificent, and so utterly enormous that it defies conventional description. Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield isn’t just ...

Sea cucumbers might look odd, but they’re interesting creatures that also lack a brain. They rely on a simple nerve ring around their mouth and a network of nerves running through their body.

The animals we best know as fish food help to store millions of tons of carbon in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

An ochre sea star tries to blend into a kelp forest off Point Loma, California. All 20 species of west coast sea stars suffered during the die-off, which began in 2013. ByChris Iovenko Photographs ...