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The ocean is on track to become so acidic that sharks could quite literally lose their bite, new research found.
Science & Energy

As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks’ Teeth Start to Dissolve

By Frank Landymore

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales.
Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

By Victor Tangermann

New research warns that several methods of using the ocean for carbon removal could drastically deplete it of oxygen.
Climate Change

Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life

By Frank Landymore

For the past two decades, vast swathes of the oceans have been darkening as sunlight penetrates at shallower depths than it once did.
Environment

A Strange Darkness Is Spreading Throughout the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Harrowing footage from David Attenborough's new documentary OCEAN shows an up close look of the devastating effects of bottom trawling.
Environment

Heartbreaking Video Shows Fish Fleeing Huge Nets

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have noticed a strangely sweet behavior among Icelandic orcas: the adoption of a baby whale from an entirely different species. 
Science & Energy

Benevolent Orca Pods Are Adopting Baby Pilot Whales in an Apparent Effort to Clean Up the Species’ Image

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a big catch to the first ever footage of a colossal squid capturing roaming in its natural habitat.
Science & Energy

Scientists Take First Ever Video of Colossal Squid in the Wild… With One Comical Issue

By Frank Landymore

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once revived.
Science & Energy

Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Sailors have reported glowing stretches of "milky seas" for centuries, but scientists are still struggling to explain what causes them.
Science & Energy

Scientists Investigating Patches of Ocean With Otherworldly Glow

By Frank Landymore

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded a species of shark actively producing a sound. And it's not what you'd expect.
Science & Energy

It Turns Out Sharks Make Noises, and Here’s What They Sound Like

By Frank Landymore

Using drones, a team of researchers have captured the first footage of narwhals using their tusks in the wild.
Science & Energy

Behold Rare Footage of What Narwhals Actually Use Their Tusks For

By Frank Landymore

An unusual number of great white sharks are turning up dead, and scientists are struggling to understand why.
Brain

Great White Sharks Are Suddenly Washing Up Dead With Swollen Brains

By Frank Landymore

When scientists looked underneath the seafloor, they found a stunning alien landscape — and found way more life than expected. 
Science & Energy

Scientists Peeked Underneath the Seafloor and Discovered Something “Totally Unexpected”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The scientists were tracking a seven-foot long porbeagle shark, which is a formidable predator in its own right.
Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed as Shark Tracker Suddenly Shows Up Inside Larger Creature

By Frank Landymore

A single male bottlenosed dolphin, who may just be trying to be friendly, is believed to be behind a string of attacks on beachgoers.
Science & Energy

Dolphin Who Keeps Attacking Swimmers May Be Motivated by Sex, Experts Say

By Frank Landymore

A pod of sperm whales used "defensive defecation" to successfully deter a vicious swarm of orcas off the coast of Western Australia.
Science & Energy

Footage Shows Whales Fighting Off Orcas Using Explosive Diarrhea

By Frank Landymore