The Coral Triangle is the largest system of marine protected areas in the world. Home to more than 500 corals and 2,500 coral reef fishes, the triangular waters surrounding the Philippines, Malaysia, ...

The deep sea, a realm of perpetual darkness, crushing pressure, and cold temperatures, is home to some of the most unusual and mysterious creatures on Earth. Recent discoveries have unveiled a host of ...

Deep off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Mexico, fallen wood provides a home and food to three new species. Abdullah Ali via Unsplash When a tree falls along the coastline or driftwood flows down ...

Dive into the depths of the ocean to discover seven rare deep-sea creatures so strange and elusive, you won't believe they ...

A new species was found on commercial scallop farms in southern China, researchers said. Zhang, et al (2025) Ecology and Evolution In the Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea, an expansive grid of tied ...

The La Jolla-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography is no stranger to getting calls from the public with questions about marine species found along local shores. Some callers wonder what something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet ...

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank, have let the internet name a newly discovered deep‑sea ...

Researchers in Hawaii discovered four new species of sponge. Getty Images/iStockphoto Researchers in Hawaii used structures that mimic coral reefs to study aquatic life — and they found four new ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...