oceans

We are only just beginning to find ways to explore the deepest trenches.

Hoving and Haddock, Scientific Reports (2017)

Researchers observed the deep-sea cephalopods in the act of eating dinner.

The True's beaked whale is one of the most elusive mammals in the ocean.

The amount of plastic in our oceans—and thus in our seafood—is rising.

Deep-sea urchins are seen in an ocean trench near New Zealand.

Just a handful of people have ever been to the deepest part of the ocean, but what we've learned about life in the hadal zone is astonishing.

Scientists were able to reduce methane production by 99 percent in preliminary tests on artificial cow stomachs.

Crochet Coral Reef project by Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, 2005-ongoing. Photo © Institute For Figuring

Sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim started the Crochet Coral Reef project in 2005 when they learned pollution and global warming may soon completely destroy the Great Barrier Reef in their home country of Australia.

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They don't look half bad underwater.

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Researchers say chalk cliffs in Sussex are receding from the coast 10 times faster than they did a few centuries ago.

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Analysis of coral skeletons from the Late Triassic period shows that the corals were already involved in a symbiotic relationship with dinoflagellate algae even then.

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International protections on the so-called "Serengeti of Antarctica" will hold for 35 years.

The second-largest living fish is a gentle giant with some peculiar habits and a knack for instigating cryptozoological debates.

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Commerical fish populations are under threat.

Across the world statues have been sunk into the oceans for a variety of reasons—as memorials, to offer protection to a fragile marine environment, or simply as beautiful art.

New England’s Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is home to chubby octopuses, ancient sharks, and underwater chasms deeper than the Grand Canyon.

Scientists aboard the ship will study how global warming is affecting Earth's oceans.

The yellow-bellied sea snake may be capable of traveling great distances by drifting along ocean currents.

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It's too big and low for us to hear, but researchers say the sea produces about an A flat.

Walruses take a break from hunting to chill out on beaches in massive groups, but scientists have a hard time figuring out why they choose the locations they do.