[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans.

Today, these labyrinthine passages host a variety of tiny sea creatures found nowhere else ... The Haitian boa (Epicrates striatus) feeds on small lizards, mammals, and birds, and can grow up ...

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have evolved unique oral and aural adaptations. Understanding them better could ...

Off the coast of Louisiana, scientists aboard a research vessel hauled up a box-like structure and began to take it apart. Inside, they found an orange sea creature with “bubble”-like blobs ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little ... in drawing down carbon from the ocean surface. ‘With sea ice declining and industrial fishing growing, we urgently need to ...

One of the strangest groups of creatures of all is the sea squirts. Their comical title belies the fact that although they are still invertebrates, they actually belong in the same phylum as we do ...