The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

In Shark Whisperer, Ocean Ramsey, the woman known for swimming alongside great whites fearlessly, reveals something no one ...

The San Mateo County Harbor District is exploring the possibility of opening an ocean science and research center, beginning with a survey evaluating interest from residents and the science and ...

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...

Enric Sala: For me, I’ve been working on ocean science and conservation for more than 35 years, but I had not seen bottom trawling underwater. That was the surprising thing for me.

The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of ...

We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors.According to a study published May 7 in Science Advances, humans have only put eyes on 0.0001 percent of our planet’s waters deeper than the ...

National Geographic’s documentary series ‘OceanXplorers,’ produced by James Cameron, invites you aboard one of the most advanced research vessels in the world.

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.

Andrew Wozniak, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Delaware, struggled to process what his eyes were taking in. Dr. Wozniak was parked on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean beneath nearly ...