Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

With the 2025 release of the Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean (MiCO) interactive map, scientists, conservationists, and marine enthusiasts get a new glimpse into the migration patterns of more than ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Whale ancestors were terrestrial mammals that walked on four legs. This bone structure that helped them walk eventually ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

After more than four decades, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is preparing to say goodbye to its seal and sea lions.

In a small, rented lab in the port of Los Angeles in May, Keith Matassa was working through a backlog of bodies on ice. Using a surgical knife, he carefully removed a California sea lion fetus from a ...

A towering, centuries old sea creature has been found rising from the seafloor off New Zealand, its branches forming a living ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...