Cetaceans are among the most intelligent creatures in the ocean and many whales have used their big brains to develop cunning ...

Hagfish are undoubtedly weird. Sometimes called slime eels, they aren’t actually eels. They are fish but have no scales or fins. Hagfish are the only vertebrates with no spine. They do have a skull, ...

OCEAN CITY, MD.- Stranded marine animals in Ocean City have a new safe haven today. It’s the 400-foot square foot “National Aquarium Animal Rescue Stranding Response Center,” on 65th Street. The space ...

Is “Under the Sea” already playing in your head? Almost everyone has wondered what it would be like to be part of that world and astrology can help us understand which marine animal you would be if ...

The remarkable discovery of animal life beneath the seafloor shows that life finds a way even in the most extreme environments, potentially boosting hopes for finding life beyond Earth. Reading time 4 ...

This secretive native of both sides of the Caribbean—from Belize to the British Virgin Islands—hides out on ledges and in caves of reefs up to 140 feet below the surface of the sea. Although not being ...

In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt -- a mineral used in electric vehicle batteries. Not only do directly ...

The natural world is rife with opportunities to contextualize our own existence. Perhaps no instance of this is more jarring though than being dwarfed by the sheer size of some of our fellow earthly ...