The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

Picture this: vast underwater mountains hiding creatures that seem ripped from science fiction, animals that create their own ...

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

In the deepest and coldest parts of the ocean, sea creatures — mainly invertebrates, or animals without backbones — can reach gargantuan proportions. Squids, sea spiders, worms and a variety of other ...

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how ...

The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

First Place Collective Portfolio Award. For its inaugural contest, the Ocean Photography Awards has honored photographers across six categories covering a cross-section of amazing undersea photography ...

New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals. While ...