A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when sealed off from the surface by a thick layer of ice. A large sponge ...

They can also visit one of its prominent sea stacks Abbey Island, which is the hole to various creatures like sea otters, birds, and starfish. Visitors who go south instead can potentially hike ...

A giant phantom jelly seen by the research vessel – credit ROV SuBastian Schmidt Ocean Institute Located in the Bellingshausen Sea, the King George VI ice shelf, one of the massive, mostly ...

It’s hard to study animals at this depth in the cold, since they spend a lot of time in a habitat “on the continental shelf to the deep sea,” says Matthew Davis, a professor of biological ...

The school's mascot is the shark. First graders made sea creatures using bright colors with markers and stencils. Second graders made 2-dimensional artwork of sunsets and sea creatures using ...

Two tiny sea creatures with translucent bodies found on the California coast are both new species. They’re sea slugs, part of the Dotidae family. And while they’re small — measuring less ...

An international team of researchers took advantage of a rare chance encounter to explore a massive new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice shelf in the Bellingshausen Sea.

The RSV Nuyina icebreaker is part-way though its first mission dedicated solely to marine science. Along with understanding the impacts of warmer waters in the Antarctic region, scientists have ...

A 36-foot emaciated sea creature washed up on a California beach, and now researchers want to know how it died. On March 29, the Marine Mammal Center was notified by the National Park Service ...