These days voyagers returning to Honolulu have more white terns to track than at any other time in modern history. New data ...

On World Aquatic Animal Day, I ask only this: spare a thought for the fishes. Recognise them as the sentient individuals our ...

Her journey to the hidden depths of the sea invites a new way of seeing.

Monitoring a brainless sea star may seem like a curious way to go about studying robotics. But the marine invertebrate’s ...

Marrying science and art, Jones partnered with two other artists — Alaska-based Kierstin Keller and Oregon-based Nilanjana ...

From the depths of the ocean to the forest floor at night, some animals can do something that seems almost magical: they make ...

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The natural world is full of interesting creatures with unique biological systems. Among the most interesting creatures is the starfish, also referred to as a sea star. Starfish are unique in that ...

A warship emblazoned with the words ‘Assab Ethiopia’. Commandos blasting through a sealed steel door beneath the slogan ‘We will not remain closed’. Red-bereted paratroopers descending from the sky as ...

As you descend from the sunlight zone into the midnight zone, the ocean transforms into almost complete darkness where pressure increases dramatically and life mutates into killing machines. In this ...

Many loyal Norwegian Cruise Line passengers were upset when the cruise line discontinued its popular Free at Sea Plus cruise package when it transitioned to its short-lived More at Sea program for ...

In the frozen darkness of the Arctic Ocean lives one of the strangest animals on Earth. The narwhal’s spiraled tusk looks mythical - but its biology is even more bizarre than its appearance. Adapted ...