New research suggests that medieval Icelanders were scavenging and likely even hunting blue whales long before industrial ...

Squeezed between the ocean and Cape Town’s urban sprawl, coastal caracals are the first felines to regularly dine on marine prey.

The northeast Pacific Ocean is home to an astonishing array of marine creatures—spiky urchins, multiarmed sea stars, soft sea slugs the color of lemons, and barnacles with their heads glued to rocks.

Seaweed is versatile; it provides habitat for marine life, shelters coastlines, and absorbs carbon dioxide. But in the United States, scientists are setting out to see whether seaweed has another ...

Killer whales occasionally find themselves where they don’t belong. In the Arctic, they routinely get stuck on the wrong side ...

Losing young is sad, but for small inbred populations it can sometimes be a good thing—in the long run.

A recent scientific expedition to the Gulf of Mexico seafloor shows just how little things have improved near the broken well.

A deadly water mold—a relative of the pathogen that causes potato blight—is devastating what’s left of the South Atlantic island’s endemic trees.

Every year, thousands of tourists from around the world visit British Columbia’s coastal rivers in search of an exciting up-close experience with a grizzly bear. That is, every year except 2020, as ...