The Southern Ocean has immense global value, for its ability to regulate global ocean temperature, moderate sea levels, and store carbon.

New research shows that a large marine protected area (MPA) in Hawaiʻi led to recovery and spillover of migratory species.

The first appearance of shark-like ‘jawed fish’ may have happened some 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

Cool as a sea cucumber - new evidence on how sea cucumbers produce self-defence chemicals may lead to medicines and healthy compounds.

An exceptional prehistoric site discovery containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field.

What would typically lead most people to flee the water was something the two guys quickly recognized as completely safe and uncommon.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever existed, weighting as much as two thousand people together.

Cichlids and stingrays can perform simple addition and subtraction in the number range of one to five as shown in a recent study.

A sea snail living in the Pacific Ocean may be able to help scientists develop an alternative to addictive painkillers like Morphene.

It turns out these predators love to grab a nap when there’s nothing going on and some actually sleep with their eyes wide open!

A "massive" new reef measuring 500 meters (about 1,600 feet) has been discovered in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Researchers have found that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish.

Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, researchers found the world's largest fish breeding area known.

A trio of researchers at the University of Trento, in Italy, has found via experimentation that archerfish can distinguish between numbers.

Researchers reported finding no fewer than 114 species of animals, coexisting in a complex community, on a ship’s ram from a sunk ship.

Darting around the pool as a group of swimmers stands in the shallow end, the dolphin looks much like those that jump through hoops

Whales were hunted nearly to extinction. A new report shows how important they are for healthy oceans.

A Connecticut aquarium plans to auction off the chance to name three of its five recently arrived beluga whales to raise money for care