One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Discover unique animals that start with Y, from the massive Yak to the rare Yeti Crab. Explore this list of names and fascinating facts about these creatures.

Researchers retrieved reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam. The devices were placed up to 330 feet below the surface.

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

As complexity increases, wrecks begin to function like artificial reefs. Nooks and crannies provide refuge for small fish, ...

Across their 10,000 species, sea slugs sport striking colors, external gills, and even the ability to regrow a body from a severed head.

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say. The number of animals found in ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

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Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

Although the squid may appear at first glance to have "teeth like a human," in reality the feature consists of "circular, folded lips, of which only the upper and lower portions can be seen." The ...

A recent Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition off the coast of Uruguay discovered at least 30 suspected new species and explored a sunken warship. By Popular Science Team Published Oct 4, 2025 10:00 AM ...