During the lockdowns of 2020, global shipping was severely restricted and ocean noise pollution all but ceased. Instead the ...

Interpol says a monthlong operation led by the international police body resulted in the rescue of nearly 30,000 live animals that were being trafficked.

Every year on December 10, advocates around the world observe International Animal Rights Day, a reminder that animals ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

Explore the remarkable similarities and differences between sperm whales and giant squid, from size and behavior to diet and ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Aquarium has a new resident making a splash. Ruby, a southern sea otter from Monterey Bay Aquarium, arrived in Seattle this week and is already settling into her new home ...

Consider your morning cup of coffee. Your kettle’s heating element — or flame on a stove — warms up water that you infuse with beans and pour into a mug. Maybe you get busy and the cup of joe sits ...

Humans burp after a big meal. Heat from climate change might be released by the Southern Ocean into the atmosphere sometime in the future. This heat would cause comparable heating to anthropogenic ...