The school board also heard from students and parents upset that the district won’t permit a banner for a student who died in 2024 by suicide. Contention rose during the West Mifflin Area School ...

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike structure.

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

Fifty-eight sea turtles in critical care have been bestowed with themed nicknames as part of their recovery process before they are released back out into the wild.

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Many insects live in fresh water, or close to the sea in salt marsh and beach habitats. There are also several species of water striders in the genus Halobates, which live on the ocean’s surface, far ...

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

Reviewing those rare encounters, marine scientist Mark C. Benfield at Louisiana State University (LSU) connected scattered sightings and documented the fish alive in its natural depth range. Footage ...

Common names for animals are often easier to remember than their Latin names, but they can often lead to confusion. Here are ...