Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacking humans in the water ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

Researchers with the Center for Transformational Play at Carnegie Mellon University have created a virtual reality experience called “Echo of the Abyss” - this VR technology takes players on an ocean ...

Sea otters, or Enhydra lutris (their scientific name), have recently been spotted making kelp forests their new home. Sea ...

Collector vehicles scrape along the ocean floor as they scoop up nodules and stir up sediments ... This ecosystem is home to zooplankton – tiny animals that drift with ocean currents – and micronekton ...

Despite decades of research, scientists admit that they still have a lot to learn about sleep. In general, sleep can be ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...