Marine biologists diving in the Gulf of Thailand were thrilled in 2023 to rediscover several colonies of a rare type of ocean sponge once thought to be extinct in the wild. But their excitement ...

What are the top facts about the ocean? While much is known about the ocean, a large part of it remains unknown. Here are fun facts about it for people of all ages.

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.

A December report from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council shows a rolling 10-year average return of 2.3 million ...

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have ...

The debris and pollution from the recent L.A. fires will eventually make their way to the ocean — and scientists will be ...

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Ocean warming has quadrupled since the 1980s. Rising sea temperatures threaten marine life and coastal communities.

A new study led by UC Santa Cruz ecology and evolutionary biologist Malin Pinsky finds that temperature changes due to ...

Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...

Giant clams, among the largest mollusks in the ocean, are a fascinating part of tropical coral reefs. These enormous ...

The first whole genome study of mitochondrial DNA and high-resolution scans of nuclear DNA from endangered shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean show relatively high genetic diversity, despite ...