A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, ...

Wrasse fish use hard surfaces as tools to crack open prey. This behavior shows flexible thinking and environmental awareness.

submersibles and robots — exploring depths up to 4,990 meters — scientists uncovered 866 species such as sharks, sea butterflies, brittle stars and more. Notable finds include the guitar shark ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

Sea otters are one of the predators — one of the wolves, to continue the metaphor, to our urchin deer — keeping urchins in ...

A new study has found fish using tools to open shellfish. Tool use is when creatures use an item to achieve to a goal, like ...

A snapshot of any given patch of CCZ seafloor might show just a solitary brittle star, but researchers seldom see the same creature twice. There are "huge numbers of rare species", said Horton ...

A newly published report highlights the range of socio-cultural benefits people experience from the coast and sea, helping to ...

Through ten global expeditions using divers, submersibles and robots — exploring depths up to 4,990 meters — scientists uncovered 866 species such as sharks, sea butterflies, brittle stars and ...

A snapshot of any given patch of CCZ seafloor might show just a solitary brittle star, but researchers seldom see the same creature twice. There are “huge numbers of rare species”, said Horton ...