A disturbing discovery off an island in the country’s south has left locals baffled, with a series of photos revealing dozens of dead animals mysteriously floating in the sea.

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 ...

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

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 ...

A massive adult female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed ashore near Beach Pocket Park #3 in Galveston on March 7, triggering an urgent rescue effort along the Texas Gulf Coast. The turtle — the world’s ...

Susan Ellis spent decades telling the stories of St. Croix with curiosity, compassion, and a deep respect for the community she called home. After years at the St. Croix Avis, she joined the Virgin ...

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

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?

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 ...

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, ...

A rare painted river terrapin hatched at the Smithsonian National Zoo, giving conservationists hope for a turtle species ...

Two rare “doomsday fish” appeared near a beach in Cabo San Lucas. Instagram/Monica Pittenger Instagram/Monica Pittenger A quiet beach day in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, turned into an extraordinary ...