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 ...

While it's very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, "life finds a way," that way can sometimes veer quite far off ...

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.

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 ...

In a speech delivered to the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco, Prince William said life on the ocean floor was "diminishing before our eyes" and called for ambitious action "on a global, ...