The ocean floor is riddled with ungodly species that seem to have been created out of our worst collective nightmares. There are demonic-looking fishes that glow and sponges (that do not look like ...

A sea lion has a seizure at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro. (William Liang/For The Times) The Trump administration's targeting of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will ...

Temperatures around the world continue to rise—and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for ...

A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Recent research underscores the critical role that tiny ocean organisms play in Earth’s carbon cycle, a factor often ...

Temperatures around the world continue to rise – and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for ...

This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Science takes time, patience and stamina. In the ...

Antarctica isn’t exactly the type of place you’d expect to be teeming with life, but a new study suggests the frigid environment at the end of the world may be a little more hospitable than it seems.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A new study of nearly 22,000 fossils finds that ancient plankton communities began changing in important ways as much as 400,000 years before massive die-offs ensued during the first ...