Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline.

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four ...

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making ...

Birch Aquarium visitors can see the 11-foot oarfish that was found near Leucadia last November. The new limited-time, ...

Recent Discoveries from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Collection, which runs through the end of summer, blends the ...

When Carl, the cardboard ducky, landed in Ritz Park on South Grand Avenue in March 2018, the whimsical 6-foot smiling duck ...

Enjoy a deep-sea dive into a world of mermaids and seahorses, join a young adventurer on a mission to rescue the last Russian ...

These longest-living animals have the remarkable quality of regenerating their cells infinitely, thus reversing the ageing ...

The Wendigo of Native American lore, the Sphinx of ancient Egypt, the Kraken said to terrorize the ocean — discover these and ...

It’s a pretty appropriate name given where H. hades lives; the trench extends down to the hadal zone, itself named after ...

The massive creatures — which can weigh 90,000 pounds and measure 55 feet — have sleek, dark bodies and slender, pointed flippers. Little is known about their population status, and they are ...