A new study reveals how frogfish mastered their eerie fishing trick: by rearranging their motor neurons. Here’s the ...

Before compasses, maps, or metal ships, a seafaring people charted the vast Pacific—settling thousands of islands, founding cities, and creating cultures as diverse as the ocean was wide.

These mysterious creatures undertake extraordinary journeys—a metamorphosis and migration so dramatic it rivals any in nature ...

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because icy meltwater from Antarctica reduces ocean surface temperatures in the ...

On November 12, 2025, Iceland became the first nation to officially classify the potential collapse of the Atlantic ...

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

A new study analyzing chemical traces in the growth rings of clam shells reinforces growing concerns about the stability of a key North Atlantic Ocean current that helps keep the global climate ...

This storm is no longer being tracked. Imelda was a post-tropical cyclone in the Sargasso Sea Thursday morning Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. Imelda is the ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- If you're out near the Santa Monica Pier, you may notice parts of the ocean looking a little pink. Don't worry, it's all in the name of science. It's a chemical called ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...