Scientists found special brain connections in seals and sea lions that help control vocal sounds. This may explain how speech ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

Many ocean creatures appear soft and harmless, drifting gently through the water. But some of them carry one of the ocean’s most unusual weapons. Cnidarians — the group that includes jellyfish, corals ...

Human activity is making the underwater world increasingly noisy. Ph.D. candidate Fien Demuynck researched how wind farms affect fish and how to minimize any negative impact. "We don't want animals to ...

A global study finds that everyday boat traffic can disrupt ocean animals like whales, sharks, and sea turtles - even without collisions.

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCF chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. The beloved Nintendo cozy game Animal Crossing is teaming up with Sea Life ...

We know that octopuses are highly intelligent creatures, but there’s still plenty that we haven’t discovered about them. Scientists long-thought that they were solitary animals and were confined to ...

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 ...

When Brazilian researcher Dr Maria 'Duda' Santos went scuba diving in Okinawa, Japan, she was surprised. Everywhere she looked, she saw species that were totally different to the marine life back home ...

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Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The fish, found in the Red Sea, have what the scientists behind the new study ...