The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Considering how vast it is, scientists know relatively little about what’s going on down there. On top of that, there are many popular ...

How do you study unmapped areas of the ocean and identify critical habitat for an endangered species? You include the study animal in the scientific process! At least, that's what researchers did with ...

Most people think the great white shark is the ocean predator they should fear the most. However, this type of jellyfish, statistically speaking, is much deadlier. Sharks are probably the animal that ...

As the world faces environmental challenges and seeks new opportunities, the idea of underwater living is gaining serious momentum. While lunar and Martian colonies make headlines, scientists and ...

An ocean technology company has just unveiled a pioneering underwater habitat prototype at a hangar in Miami, designed to allow scientists to live and carry out research beneath the sea’s surface for ...

Earth’s oceans make up the life blood of our planet, 70% of which is covered by water. Yet as a recent European Space Agency-led initiative indicates human activities, mainly in the form of noise from ...

After measuring the size of nearly 1 million fish and sharks over a 14-year period, researchers concluded that the species grew larger in remote and protected locations, free from the interference of ...

Across the world’s oceans, our knowledge of the seafloor is very limited. Mapping and studying deep, remote offshore areas is difficult, expensive and time-consuming. So much of the ocean has not yet ...