Ocean news tends to arrive in one flavor: grim. Yet scattered across the globe, a handful of marine zones are quietly rewriting that script, showing recovery rates that have surprised even the ...

A UL Lafayette-led study finds warming oceans could shrink many marine animals, while some species may grow larger depending ...

A new study from the University of Southampton sheds light on the impact climate change is having on marine environments in a relatively recent global phenomenon known as "tropicalization." In the ...

Research led by scientists at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette challenges a long-held assumption about the effects of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon-like teeth are among 866 previously ...

In 1906, Lewis Nixon invented the first sonar-type listening device to detect icebergs. Years later, Sound Navigation and Ranging (SONAR) became a staple in naval military warfare for its ability to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Deposit Photos. The ocean, blanketing over 70% of the Earth's surface, is estimated to be home to more than half of ...

Biologists have launched a database of marine animals’ body sizes that they say could help preserve biodiversity in Earth’s oceans. Why bother measuring animals’ body size? In an article in Global ...

Starfish cling to the metal surface of an unexploded World War II warhead in the German Baltic Sea. The discarded weapons host a surprisingly dense colony of organisms. Once designed to destroy, they ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much? The bar is low, according to a new study out Monday: less than three sugar cubes worth ...

A military wreck from 1917 is not chemically sealed off from the present. Research near Denmark has found TNT moving from a submarine lost during the 1914–1918 war into the surrounding water, seabed ...

Hawaiian Council announced the appointment of Christina M. Leos as general manager of Sea Life Park Hawaiʻi, naming a former ...