In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two tiny fossils, speaking across 150 million years. These remains are from ...

Nearly a dozen underwater structures deployed off Guam’s coasts eight years ago have revealed a trove of marine life invisible to most divers, including species never before recorded in island ...

Sara Almabruk is strategizing how to save Mediterranean angel sharks, “custodians of the seafloor” whose robust presence can ...

Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at marine fish species living in the world's oceans by studying traces of genetic ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

Researchers analyzed long-term menstrual records and found that before 2010, women’s cycles more often aligned with lunar ...

A Keele University academic has called for the creation of a United Nations Ocean Agency to coordinate global action on the ...

Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.

Viruses stand as the ocean's most prolific biological entities, vastly surpassing their microbial hosts in number. Long considered merely pathogenic agents, ...