The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is among the most unusual and least understood predators in the ocean. Deep-dwelling, ...

A rare purple sea snail (Janthina) washes ashore in San Deigo. Scientists reveal its floating bubble-raft lifestyle, striking violet colour and how ocean currents unexpectedly carried it to the beach.

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

The great white shark’s fearsome reputation has been shaped in part by films like Jaws and Deep Blue Sea, which portray it as ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

Dexter shared that whenever the penguins waddle by, the team pauses the science for a few minutes of fun. On their way back ...

From giant stick bugs to rarely seen sea creatures, these animal videos fascinated us—and led to new scientific discoveries.

Mosasaurs were enormous reptiles best known for ruling ancient oceans more than 66 million years ago, but new evidence suggests some also lived in rivers. Scientists reached this conclusion after ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The Trench is set to find a new audience on streaming, with Prime Video adding the movie to its catalog. Directed by Ben ...

Young seabirds create a seasonal food source that draws tiger sharks and pushes other sharks to change where and when they ...