In the 19th century, a father-son team fashioned sea animals from glass to be classroom aids. Today, the fragile pieces are prized by museums. Gifted glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made ...

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

The project comes at a perilous moment for these creatures. Since 2022, sea urchins have been plagued by a scuticociliate, a single-celled pathogen that eats away at the animals’ soft tissue and ...

We've never seen this rare squid alive in the wild—until now In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures.

Sea turtles lay eggs on sandy beaches, but many of them never hatch. The incubating creatures may be killed by microbes, dug up by wild dogs, or exposed by other turtles scraping out new nests.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists filmed the elusive Gonatus antarcticus squid for the first time in its natural Antarctic habitat in the Weddell Sea.

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest animal species on Earth. A pair of sea butterflies (Corolla spectabilis ...

“In the deep sea, there’s always a good chance you’re seeing something for the first time,” Bolstad told National Geographic. “The potential for discoveries and exploration is pretty ...

A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc-Sablon, Québec, in early March. Normally harp seals give birth and raise their pups on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but ...

From the Făgăraș Mountains of Romania to the teeming sea cliffs of St Kilda in Scotland, Europe is still home to staggering displays of summer wildlife. Whether you’re searching for sperm ...

Award winners Shane Gross and Cristina Mittermeier use their powerful images to spur changes needed to conserve vital ...

Could so-called blue carbon be key to resolving some of Australia’s biggest environmental and cultural challenges?