A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, according to a new analysis of ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that sea urchins, a fascinating sea creature, have a surprisingly complex nervous ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

Scientists observed the spherical body, covered with hooks that trapped small animals, a feeding strategy unlike the passive filtration used by most sponges.

Capturing the first underwater color photographs was no mean feat and involved powerful explosives as well as hours and hours of waiting.

"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

The most sophisticated modeling to date forecasts that, under the current global emissions pathway, the Great Barrier Reef ...

South Florida has a new tourist attraction but you won’t be able to spot it from land. Over several days late last month, crews lowered 22 life-sized cars into the ocean, several hundred feet. The ...

A similar recovery has not been observed among sunflower sea stars, which are linked to the vanishing of Oregon's underwater ...

Tons of toxic German munitions, dumped in the Baltic and North Seas after World War II, have become an unlikely refuge for ...

Kate Spencer receives funding from NERC, Lloyd's Register Foundation and EU Interreg IV programme Preventing Plastic Pollution Nan Wu works for Queen Mary University of London and the British ...

When Manuele Aufiero was a child, his parents would take him hiking along a reservoir in northern Italy. It wasn’t a typical reservoir, though. This one drained and refilled constantly, with pumps ...