Science & the Sea

You may have heard that starfish can regrow arms they’ve lost, but imagine a creature that can regrow nearly all...

Humpback whales arrive into the world at a whopping 26.5 feet long, but they have no time to waste in...

Most turtle-headed sea snakes throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans have black-and-white banded bodies—unless they swim in city waters. Instead...

They didn’t know what they would find when they set off for a month at sea on May 15, 2017....

Nemo may have been interested in exploring the great big ocean, but his dad Marlin’s attachment to their anemone is...

Harvey, Irma, Jose, Maria… the 2017 hurricane season has been intense, and it’s not just humans trying to recover from...

New discoveries in the ocean never end, but sometimes even the ocean’s largest animals can evade scientists. It takes perseverance,...

They’re tiny and they’re brainless, but the box jellyfish of Australia, known to science as Carukia barnesi, packs a deadly...

Living in near-total darkness requires some creative adaptations both to find food and avoid becoming food. For the red-colored strawberry...

It’s said that sharks can smell a drop of blood in water a mile away. Depending on the shark species...