Scientists are using tagged sharks as mobile sensors to collect ocean data, improving climate forecasts by up to 40%.

The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep.

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In 2019, paleontologist Paul Sereno and a 20-person team were prospecting ancient river deposits in the central Sahara when ...

As well as revising the taxonomy of this giant octopus, researchers were able to use this newly identified, well-preserved ...

They turned the fish around and tied it up with the transom lines, only 1/3 of the fish would go through the door.

This Mother’s Day weekend on Florida’s Gulf Coast, some mothers will be laboring under cover of darkness, crawling ashore, ...

There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...

Below the waves, giant marine reptiles, such as the fearsome 4m (13ft) long mosasaurs, were the undisputed apex predators. In artistic reconstructions of these ancient oceans, cephalopods – the animal ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have identified a microscopic “ruthless predator” that could ...

AI wildlife videos have flooded social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, racking up millions of views and ...

New research suggests that octopuses up to 62 feet long prowled the oceans about 100 million years ago, rivaling top marine predators like mosasaurs. Fossilized beaks from two extinct species indicate ...