Whenever I take my family on a trip to a new state, we always try to visit the local aquarium, and I bet a lot of other families do the same. It’s exciting to see the different types of marine ...

Dive to places uninhabitable by humans and encounter regal whales and colorful reef life. Ocean Animals features the world’s most charismatic animals that inhabit a realm humans can only fleetingly ...

This slimline, eel-like fish has no scales for protection so chooses to use a sea cucumber's sphincter for safety. The Pacific geoduck is a clam that lives along the shore from Alaska to Mexico, can ...

Photojournalist Brian Skerry has taken photos for National Geographic for the past 14 years and counting. His photographs are the focus of a new exhibit scheduled for early next year at the ...

The species help harness carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, deep in the ocean, but much is still unknown about this region and its fascinating inhabitants. The terrifyingly toothy Pacific viperfish, ...

Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting isolated on Sulawesi when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.