Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

The ice extent in January was down 498,000 square miles compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. That means the Arctic is now ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

A flurry of criticism followed the article’s publication, including from the deep-sea mining company that funded the study, ...

Augmented reality comes to deep-sea divers, thanks to the US Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Coda Octopus's Divers ...

Why it's awesome: Earth's oceans are home to many secretive and unusual creatures that humans rarely see — including giant ...

Puget Sound might be sheltered from feeling many strong winds directly, but it’s not immune to their ripple effects. For ...

biogeochemistry, and biology of the marine environment to inform the sustainable management of marine resources in the context of climate change Research in our lab traces the flow of organic matter ...

Researchers say bottom-fishing, deep-sea mining, oil and gas extraction ... matter so it can sink deep into the ocean, microbes and plankton have long acted as one of the lungs of the global ...