When the fur trade wiped out North America’s sea otters in the early 20th century, sea urchins—a favorite otter food— ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

Scientists uncovered a thriving, never-before-seen ecosystem beneath Antarctica after a giant iceberg broke off.

And because this is one of the lowest tides this August, the water has drawn back like a curtain to expose an ecosystem ...

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

Photograph by ROV SuBastian, Schmidt Ocean Institute Normally ... To determine how long the ecosystem had existed, they turned to sea sponges. These animals often grow very slowly, around just ...

Scientists have shared footage from a rare sighting of a bluntnose sixgill shark spotted near the Phoenix Islands in the ...

Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

With the icebergs covering the seafloor, organisms below the shelf cannot get nutrients for survival from the surface. The ...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...