In its first full year of operations, the Ocean Census collaboration recorded 1,121 species believed to be new to science, a ...

Even though we’ve recorded tens of thousands of marine creatures over the decades and scientists are discovering new species ...

Thousands of species have been discovered lurking and thriving in our oceans, as part of an effort to catalogue 100,000 new ...

With this jaw-dropping image (pun intended) of a rare Bryde’s whale about to consume a heart-shaped baitball, photographer Rafael Fernández Caballero has been named the Ocean Photographer of the Year ...

The Ocean Census project says scientists have discovered 1,121 previously unknown species in a single year. The rush is on to save them as risks to the world’s oceans multiply ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The Palisades Fire destroyed ...

Icebergs towered over molecular biologist Peter Thielen as he maneuvered an inflatable motorboat through a fjord on the western Antarctic Peninsula in early 2023. A senior scientist at Johns Hopkins ...

The aquarium's owner will also stop breeding gentoo penguins at its London and Birmingham sites.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — SEA LIFE Kansas City’s newest resident, a Giant Octopus, is settling into her new home and is ready to pick out her name. Before the octopus picks out her name, aquarium visitors ...

A marine iguana ‘mid-sneeze’, a troupe of skeleton shrimps that has colonized a gorgonian coral and a spaceship-like jellyfish seemingly departing Earth’s atmosphere are among the wonderful finalists ...

A little-known group meeting in Jamaica is causing big waves this month as it considers new rules that could open the seafloor to industrial-scale mining for precious metals used in electric car ...