Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid.

Oceans may cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, but we have better maps of the moon than we do the seabed. There are ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation’s largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall ...

What happened to these creatures during the extinction event and how they rebounded tells an important story, both about the ...

Baby manatees are some of the most amazing aquatic mammals in the world. Did you know that they belong to an exclusive club ...

Sea cucumbers are the ocean's janitors, cleaning the seabed and recycling nutrients back into the water. But this humble ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields. And that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with is the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice. That would ...

Dozens of coastal regions around the world, including Jakarta, Lagos and Tianjin are sinking at an alarming rate.

Climate change, plastic pollution and overfishing are putting a toll on oceans, biodiversity and livelihoods. Can the UN's ...