Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are ...

This enigmatic orb has undergone extensive examination and DNA testing, enabling scientists to reveal its true origins ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

Despite their flower-inspired name, sea pansies are not plants at all. Purple sea pansies are colonial marine animals in the ...

Several recent books with unreliable narrators give children the rare pleasure of feeling smarter than the story.

Creatures that strongly resemble legends of the Kraken may have been the kings of Cretaceous seas. A study in Science finds ...

With the future of sicklefin devil rays hanging in the balance, crucial research is building knowledge about these graceful ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists ...

The identity of the "golden orb" has been revealed as dead cells that anchored a deep-sea creature to the ocean floor.

Let us know if you’ve heard this one before: a scientific expedition ventures below the surface of the water and finds a ...

The discovery of thousands of previously unchartered coral reefs could reinforce conservation efforts in northern Australian ...