The world's oceans are shifting beneath us in ways that researchers say have no real precedent in the modern record. The ...

The continued warming of ocean waters threatens marine life, a new study demonstrates. According to the Guardian, new research on the effects of rising sea temperatures found that the warming of the ...

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 ...

More than 71% of Earth is covered by oceans, but about 95% of them remain unexplored. Only about 20% of the seafloor has been ...

It may sparkle in the sun, but the ocean's surface is a dynamic thermometer for our planet. The sea surface temperature (SST) is measured by satellites and buoys in the ocean, to give the most ...

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 ...

The retreat of ice in the Barents Sea could be strengthening a key ocean current that regulates global climate.

WASHINGTON — An eerie deep-sea creature made a surprising appearance near the ocean’s surface last week. Condrik Tenerife, a shark ocean research organization, spotted a humpback anglerfish while the ...

Coral reefs over the past 12,000 years grew best when the ocean temperature was 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius), according to new research from Florida Tech. Recent ocean warming and ...

Meteorologist Nicholas Herboso takes a closer look at the warming Gulf waters and what it could mean for our weather in this edition of Next Weather.