oceans

During the winter, they switch from a 24-hour day governed by sunlight to a 24.8-hour lunar day governed by the phases of the moon.

Leopard sharks that can’t smell find it harder to find their way home, a study in California finds.

The aptly named shark is cloaked in black from head to tail and emits a faint blue glow.

The birds eat our garbage, then return to shore to do their business.

For now, it appears that we’ve finally dumped something into the oceans that doesn’t seem to be hurting them.

Authorities are trying out high-tech methods for preventing shark attacks on New South Wales' coast.

Owners of the SS United States are struggling to preserve the ship and transform it into a floating museum.

No, that's not water spouting out of a whale's blowhole.

You can follow her travels up and down the Eastern seaboard.

Eels: As awesome as they are terrifying.

The cartoon hammerhead helps protect endangered sharks one smile at a time.

The ancient fabric is shrouded in myth, but it's still being woven today.

A dark tale of human-whale cooperation.

The largest animals on Earth are pros at conserving energy while feeding.

Sharks' sensitivity to electromagnetic fields could help steer them clear of fishing vessels.

Sarcastic fringehead fish battle it out several times a day by interlocking their enormous mouths.

No yachting experience required.

If you’ve ever tossed a message in a bottle into the ocean from anywhere in Northern Europe, it’s likely it ended up on Texel Island.

They're oddly adorable, and surprisingly gentle. (Just don't mess with them.)

Litter ruins the psychological benefits people otherwise get from looking at natural landscapes, psychologists find.

Social behavior is very weird for an octopus.

The truth about why humpbacks might be better songwriters than you.

Most deep-sea anglerfish look like creatures from another world, but this new species takes things to a whole new depth of strangeness.

The ocean is a crazy place.