A rehabilitated green sea turtle nicknamed 3K swam nearly 1,860 miles (3,000 km) in four months, from Northland to Wellington ...

How do deep-sea creatures avoid getting crushed by the water pressure?

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

Make a list of complex animals as distantly related to humans as possible, and sea anemones would likely be near the top of the list. Of course, one lives in the water and the other doesn’t, but the ...

For your next day off, why not take a peek into the world of the deep sea at an aquarium?Crabs with long, outstretched legs ...

To build more efficient pumping systems, engineers might take inspiration from a tiny filter-feeding sea creature encased in a gelatinous structure known as a "mucus house" or "snot palace." New ...

Can you tell a venomous aquatic creature from a non-venomous one? Test your knowledge of some of the world’s most dangerous underwater animals here. Most people, when asked, are able to name a few ...

Scientists exploring the floor of the deep sea around the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean found a landscape teeming with deep sea life, some of which had never been seen before. Here are ...