Growing up in a city where the ocean is a stone's throw away is idyllic, but in Recife, the sea holds a secret that keeps swimmers at bay.

In Japanese folklore, appearances of these elusive marine creatures dubbed ‘doomsday fish’ are believed to foreshadow ...

A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, ...

Scientists have discovered natural death pools in the Red Sea, in the region now believed to be the location where Moses ...

A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The ...

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Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...