As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...

A tiny sea creature may have cracked the code to eternal youth, and scientists just found the cells that could make it ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops ...

It’s not seaweed. They’ve been called the “lungs of the sea.” And while certain marine microbes could also compete for that ...

But yesterday, something much more dangerous washed up on the shores of Muizenberg beach: blue sea dragons. While beautiful to look at, and sometimes referred to as “sea swallows”, people have been ...

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

The animal kingdom contains a vast array of animals capability of remarkable regenerative abilities, but known are quite as ...

With its vivid blue float and glowing, radiating tentacles, the blue button jelly looks more like a creature from science ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

A deep-sea catshark (Scyliorhinus haeckelii) documented at 198 meters on the outer edge of the continental shelf, near the ...

California Academy of Sciences researchers and collaborators described 72 new-to-science species in 2025, including a bird, fish, plants, sea slugs, and insects found across six continents, from ocean ...