A fossilized skull and jawbones found belonged to a crested dinosaur that lived 95 million years ago— the first new species of its kind discovered in over a century.

Iskra’s glitter worm and the Elven abyss tunicate among top species recognized by the World Register of Marine Species Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography described two of ...

These days, when scientists announce they've discovered a new species of animal, it's usually some miniature frog or deep sea isopod.

Biological matter left behind in the water allows us to follow these animals without ever setting eyes on them.

The song is that of a humpback whale and was recorded by scientists in March 1949 in Bermuda, researchers said.

Wildlife authorities confirmed Thursday that nine more elephant seals, a sea lion and an otter have died from bird flu at Ano ...

An avian flu outbreak at California's Año Nuevo State Park is spreading across the Central Coast, infecting elephant seals, a sea otter and a sea lion.

Scientists recorded the first shark in Antarctic waters when a sleeper shark passed a deep-sea camera in near-freezing darkness.

Spring breakers heading to Texas beaches may spot rare “blue dragons,” tiny ocean slugs with beautiful colors. But their ...

In the frozen darkness of the Arctic Ocean lives one of the strangest animals on Earth. The narwhal’s spiraled tusk looks mythical - but its biology is even more bizarre than its appearance. Adapted ...

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...