Off the rocky coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, a group of divers descends into cold Atlantic water hoping to encounter one of the ocean’s most curious animals: gray seals. Unlike many marine animals, ...

Water striders are the only insect that live entirely on the ocean’s surface. By some estimates, insects make up 80 percent of named animal species. They’re found all over the world and in all manner ...

Deep in the wild waters of Gabon, where jungle meets oil rigs and the Atlantic Ocean churns with predators, one fisherman is searching for a legendary monster — the giant barracuda. Known for their ...

In the deep ocean, where sunlight never reaches, and food drifts down like confetti, survival is less about speed and more ...

The chain catshark may look like any other shark in daylight, but under blue light, its skin glows neon green. Here’s a breakdown of this remarkable adaptation.

As wildlife tourism grows, scientists are asking a bigger question: can we bring people closer to nature without reshaping the ecosystems they came to see?

Scientists recorded the first shark in Antarctic waters when a sleeper shark passed a deep-sea camera in near-freezing darkness.

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

Right whales can also be difficult to spot from boats due to their dark-colored skin and lack of a dorsal fin.

A deep-sea creature most people will never encounter in their lifetime just showed up twice on the same stretch of beach in Mexico. Two oarfish — long, ribbon-like animals that normally inhabit ocean ...

We often assume every baby animal grows up with its mother nearby. In reality, that is not always how nature works.

Two deep-sea oarfish - nicknamed "doomsday fish" for their folkloric ties to earthquakes - washed up near the shoreline in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, stunning beachgoers and sparking online fascination, ...