The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean, according to research ...

Researchers at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station found a “White Shark Café” located halfway between Baja ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

In most respects, the Marine Species Report Card, issued recently by Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific, is nothing like the “Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” Most obviously, the report card is ...

The world's largest and deepest ocean, the Pacific, has some truly strange animals that live in its depths. The Atlantic Ocean is a little smaller and more underrated, but it still has some pretty ...

From seabirds to sea lions, wildlife along the California coast are now facing “the Blob,” a massive marine heat wave that’s become a recurring anomaly since the early 2010s. The oceanic phenomenon ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging ...