For centuries, humans have struggled to study the vast, deep, and often inaccessible regions of the ocean. Traditional research vessels and satellites provide valuable data, but they have limitations.

A global study finds that everyday boat traffic can disrupt ocean animals like whales, sharks, and sea turtles - even without collisions.

Plastic waste releases a chemical that can confuse ocean animals, change hunting behavior, and disrupt marine food chains.

Dive to places uninhabitable by humans and encounter regal whales and colorful reef life. Ocean Animals features the world’s most charismatic animals that inhabit a realm humans can only fleetingly ...

In an age of exhausting AI-generated videos and manipulated images purporting to showcase real marine life that have never been seen by human eyes, it's easy to forget that there are actually ...

Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...

This secretive native of both sides of the Caribbean—from Belize to the British Virgin Islands—hides out on ledges and in caves of reefs up to 140 feet below the surface of the sea. Although not being ...