Learn more about the tiny crystalline dermal denticles, tooth-like scales that allow the blue shark to change colors.

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An extraordinary discovery has been made off the coast of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, in the remote Salas y Gómez Ridge. During a recent expedition led by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, researchers ...

At Caltech, researchers have turned living jellyfish into low-cost, remotely controlled ocean robots — creating real-life ...

Sheltering against sheets of sideways rain, we’re in the only restaurant on Fugloy, the easternmost island of the forgotten ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

The ocean is a wild habitat where any keen beachgoer could spy a myriad of marine life that comes covered in shells or swims along.

A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

A new U.N. AIDS agency report says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global effort ...