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British environmental artist Jason deCaires Taylor recently completed his latest work, and it's his most stunning to date—The Sculpture Coralarium, presented as the world’s first semi-submerged tidal gallery space...

Japanese marine animals have hitched a ride all the way to the United States with unlikely help from plastic garbage. The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami dumped debris into the ocean, and now, several years later, scientists...

Guest post by David Middleton   July 24, 2017 New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two remarkably...

It’s no secret that some animals on Earth live longer than many humans do. A parrot in captivity can live over 80 years, the giant tortoise can reach 100 years old or more, and the oldest known bowhead whale lived for at...

Scientists have seen contagious cancer before, in Tasmanian devils, in dogs, and in soft-shell clams in Prince Edward Island. Now, researchers are adding one more occurrence to the list: a contagious, leukemia-like disease...

AltaSea’s state-of-the-art, net-positive campus will be built on City Dock No. 1, with access to the deep sea. This location will allow scientists to study marine life and develop programs for sustainability. The organization’s...

China takes top billing in this week’s news of the “what the huh?” variety. China is working to secure rights to the South China Sea in order to build what can only be called a “space station” deep below the ocean’s...

China takes top billing in this week’s news of the “what the huh?” variety. China is working to secure rights to the South China Sea in order to build what can only be called a “space station” deep below the ocean’s...

Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have discovered a strange new species of fish in the caves of Thailand, newly dubbed Cryptotora thamicola...

For years, marine biologists have been mystified by a strange buzzing noise that occurs in the ocean every day. They knew it wasn’t whales or dolphins, and it didn’t match other mammal communication patterns. However,...

Limacina helicina, a species of tiny sea snails found in the chilly waters near the North and South Pole, are often called "sea butterflies" for the way they beat their wing-like appendages to glide through the water...

Two rare species of sea snakes, thought to have been extinct, have been sighted by scientists in Western Australia. Neither species, whose only known habitats were a pair of reefs in the Timor Sea, has been seen since 2002....

Costasiella kuroshimae, known commonly as Leaf Sheep, is an ocean-dwelling grazer, though unrelated to its namesake. The Leaf Sheep is a species of sea slug that munches on algae instead of grass. Reaching a length of 5 mm,...

From movies to comics to literature, the octopi of this world tend to get a pretty bad rap—but the goggled-eyed flapjack octopus shows us a sweet, cartoonish side of the cephlapod species (so much so that they even made...

One creature's trash may be another creature's lunch, according to new research out of James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, that suggests some Great Barrier Reef corals eat plastic pollution...