Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

It’s a deep-sea harbinger of doom. A rare “doomsday” creature known as the oarfish has washed ashore in the Canary Islands, ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

During the extreme low tides of February, an unusual marine resident is being spotted in the seagrass beds on the backside of ...

SpongeBob fans, here’s your chance to see the charismatic sea creature and line cook on stage: “The SpongeBob Musical” is being staged for two nights in a row at 7 ...

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food source for many sea creatures and produce almost half the oxygen we breathe.

Scientists created a tool to study individual phytoplankton, helping predict climate effects and ocean health changes.

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...