The aquariums said its aerial survey team spotted three True's beaked whales, a species "rarely seen at the surface," while above the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the ...

Divers in Taiwan film a giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne, in shallow waters. Encountering this mysterious creature is always a special treat.

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

The Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Census confirmed the previously unknown deep-sea weirdos as new species following two cruises to explore the area. The most surprising of these new creatures is a ...

Sea monsters like the Kraken, serpents or the Loch Ness monster may be just in our imagination, but across history, these stories have roots in reality. Today, we still like to exaggerate and tell ...

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the Antarctic seafloor.

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less of it than we have the surface of the moon.

In the deep sea, there are places where chemicals and nutrients seep out of the sediment and into the water. These chemosynthetics-based ecosystems were discovered in 1977, and in the decades since, ...

A 2022 deep-sea voyage discovered a glowing shark and a delicate, porcelain crab species off the coast of Western Australia.

Abstract: Sea ice plays a crucial role in global climate patterns, making the acquisition of sea ice change information significant. The rapid development of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) ...