Campaigners, MEPs and experts made pleas from UNOC3 for oceans to be protected at the climate summit in Brazil. View on ...

Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is ...

A new initiative to monitor the health of the world's oceans was unveiled Sunday at the United Nations Ocean Conference in ...

From starfish and sea slugs to jellyfish and sponges, the ocean's invertebrates are some of the most ancient and diverse critters on Earth. And so are their superpowers, as marine biologist Drew ...

a status that suggests this crucial ocean species is only steps away from extinction. Over the past decade, a mysterious disease has devastated the starfish’s population. The decline is not only ...

Astonishingly, the ocean teems with brainless creatures that thrive using instinct and nerve networks. Jellyfish, sea sponges ...

A starfish has five identical arms with a layer ... Sea stars begin as fertilized eggs that hatch and become larvae that float in the ocean, like plankton, for weeks to months before settling ...

This 480 million-year-old creature is the ancestor of all starfish However, bat stars may be under threat due to climate change. Rising ocean temperatures have helped to spread a new disease known ...

SEVENTY-FOUR volunteers marked Ocean Month in Capiz with a coastal and underwater cleanup in Sitio Culasi, Barangay Lonoy, Sapian, collecting 191 kilograms of w ...