Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

By monitoring killfish 24/7, researchers found that simple habits in midlife, like staying active and sleeping, can predict ...

From the depths of the ocean to the forest floor at night, some animals can do something that seems almost magical: they make ...

Dive to places uninhabitable by humans and encounter regal whales and colorful reef life. Ocean Animals features the world’s most charismatic animals that inhabit a realm humans can only fleetingly ...

From deep growls rolling over savannas to haunting whale songs drifting through the ocean, many species rely on sound to stay ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...