Beneath the ocean’s surface, an unseen system works without pause. Tiny microbes drift through the water, breaking down ...

Amro Hamdoun is a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received his bachelor's degree ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Animals like dinosaurs might come to mind when it comes to ancient species, but scientists found that this surprising species ...

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...

Ocean warming triggered more than 200 marine impacts worldwide, many occurring in cooler months that monitoring programs often overlook.

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons colonized the open ocean. When they died, their remains fell like snow ...

Something purple was sitting there amid the brown rocks and green algae. Fishman took a closer look and realized she was ...

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From Jules Verne-inspired submarines to NASA-backed underwater habitats, the dream of an undersea civilization came closer ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...