The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and China. To that end, the Navy plans to increase training across the vast ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

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As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

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The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra fish) need new homes.

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We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

Monument Rocks Chalk Pyramids in Kansas offer one of the best fossil hunting experiences in the Midwest. Explore ancient sea ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Turbo sazae, Jeju Island, East Sea, climate change, marine life, ocean currents, genetics, sea warming, migration, ...

For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures have lived off of this whale’s body by stripping it and burrowing into ...