The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

It’s one of a handful that have washed ashore in Haines since late November, with at least three recovered at Letnikof Cove. This fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s regional ...

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

A marine heatwave is an extreme weather event. It occurs when the surface temperature of a particular region of the sea rises to 3 or 4 degrees Celsius above the average temperature for at least five ...

For over a decade, Mansfield and colleagues attached GPS tags to the fast-growing shells of young wild turtles. Steering small boats, they looked for young turtles drifting among algae in the Gulf of ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

A renowned marine researcher raised fears over Queensland’s controversial shark control program just months before this ...

Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

The Turtle Island Restoration Network in Galveston, Texas, is fighting to preserve a delicate ecosystem on behalf of marine life.

From the warmest year on record to an arctic blast and even snow, marine biologists are concerned about weather and climate for some species.

A rare super pod of 1,500 Risso’s dolphins appeared off California’s coast. They leaped, played, and interacted with ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.