The High Seas Treaty aims to protect 30% of the Earth's oceans by 2030. Here are the 14 extinct ocean animals (that we know of), and dozen others that are on the verge of extinction. And one that ...

Fast-moving animals – especially small ones, creatures that fly and top ocean predators – perceive ... do you have faster eyes than if you’re an herbivore?” He and his colleagues began ...

Scientists have long known that ocean plastic is consumed because it looks like food. Sea turtles, for example, often mistake flimsy, clear plastic bags for jellyfish. Other marine animals ...

Watch as they swim, float, paddle, waddle, drift and fly into every nook and cranny to film rarely seen behavior that reveals how ocean animals possess emotions and behavior similar to humans ...

Oh Dear, There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Ocean “On land we have long known of animals living in cavities underground, and in the ocean of animals living in sand and mud, but for the first ...

A new study analyzed more than 100,000 records of animals found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a large area of the seafloor in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. About 90 percent of species ...

A variety of sea life clusters around the vents, which belch out elements that help bacteria, mussels, tube worms and other animals survive at extreme ocean depths. The vent ecosystem has been ...

Not only do directly mined areas become less habitable for ocean animals, but mining also creates a plume of sediment that can spread through the surrounding water. An investigation on the ...