More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world's fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

Dragonfish are a rarely seen species of deep-sea fish, and are alien-like in appearance. Read here to learn more about these ...

Remote reefs off Australia’s northwest coast may be remnants of an ancient reef system that helped shape modern marine life.

Researchers found that beneficial gut bacteria and ocean microbes use nearly identical molecular systems to break down ...

Nature has developed some truly bizarre ways for animals to see the world around them. Some creatures have strangely shaped ...

One of the most common misconceptions about aquaculture is that it reduces pressure on wild fish populations. In reality, ...

Known as by-the-wind sailors because of the way they catch the ocean breeze using the sail-like fin on top of their bodies, ...