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is crimson creature glides through the twilight zone with rainbows dancing up and down its body but to predators it’s ...

But beneath the waves, marine communities have their own variety of stunning architecture – with one major difference. While ...

The scientific community has gotten very good at predicting where storms will hit, but it is more difficult to predict storm intensity. That’s why researchers at the University of Delaware are looking ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...

Sensors attached to animals gather valuable data to track and mitigate the human influence on marine life. The review paper emphasizes the importance of integrating data from various sources and ...

In A Nutshell Scientists logged 460 hours of video across three of the Pacific’s deepest ocean trenches, cataloging 108 ...

Dive to places uninhabitable by humans and encounter regal whales and colorful reef life. Ocean Animals features the world’s most charismatic animals that inhabit a realm humans can only fleetingly ...

Growing up, I never loved jewelry. But I’ve been wearing the same necklace for the past year: a wrapped lemon shark tooth that I found on Wrightsville Beach, which never fails to act as a conversation ...

A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to change behavior—and the danger it poses. Rescuers capture a sick sea lion in ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

This secretive native of both sides of the Caribbean—from Belize to the British Virgin Islands—hides out on ledges and in caves of reefs up to 140 feet below the surface of the sea. Although not being ...