A flood emergency is underway in western Washington as several communities are underwater from historic rains. by KOMO News Staff SEATTLE — The Seattle Aquarium has joyfully announced the arrival of ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A window remains boarded up where a stray bullet hit a resident during a fight that escalated to a shooting near Ocean Beach in San Francisco last Saturday. Five people were ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've already discovered 30 new deep-sea creatures. Reading time 2 minutes The deep ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Thousands of creatures known as “skin-breathing sea cucumbers” have washed ashore on Seaside Beach along the Oregon Coast. The small, gelatinous, blob-like animals are often uprooted ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like sea creature on a coral reef in Papua New Guinea and discovered an “iridescent” new species, a study said. Screengrab from Allways Dive Expeditions’ YouTube video Off ...

Dolphins washing up on Florida’s shores may be victims of the same kind of brain degeneration seen in humans with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers discovered that cyanobacterial toxins—worsened by ...

Melting sea ice and deforestation are continuing to drive many species toward extinction, with the latest Red List of Threatened Species showing that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and ...