Scientists filmed a squid covering itself in mud and holding its tentacles upright, using camouflage that helps it hide on the ocean floor.

As the Sunshine State experiences cold temperatures, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reminding ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, a strange predator drifts through the water like a living ghost train, its body stretching ...

For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

A new study led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), along with international partners, finds that ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could survive and evolve.

A mule deer buck at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge outside Denver, Colorado. Image by Oborseth via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

“I had aquaria starting from age 5 or 6,” said Rocha. “And I decided to be a biologist when my third-grade science teacher brought in fish for a class. I’ve just always had this attraction to fish and ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 underwater monitoring structures from the deep reefs off the Pacific island of Guam, which have been gathering data there at depths up ...

(CNN) — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.