The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

WASHINGTON — Two baby Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were released back into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, following more than six months of rehabilitation with the National Aquarium’s Animal Health and ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

Jessica Varrato, an animal rescue technician at Mystic Aquarium, said she started off as a part-time clinic volunteer 10 years ago before dedicating her life to helping animals in need. The ...