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A new study offers new evidence that Anomalocaris canadensis, an ancient ocean predator, was too weak to hunt and crush trilobites.

Science & Energy

That “Weird Shrimp From Canada” Less Swole Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Below the Indian Ocean, there's a giant "gravity hole" over one million square miles in size. Scientists may have figured out why it exists.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by “Gravity Hole” at Bottom of Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

An orca repeatedly slammed into a yacht sailing in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland earlier this week.

Science & Energy

Relentless Orca Repeatedly Rams Yacht

By Frank Landymore

Five years ago, OceanGate, the company behind the now-missing submarine, brushed away warnings about the craft's safety.

OceanGate Was Warned of “Catastrophic” Problems With Its Submarine Years Ago

By Sharon Adarlo

PSA for anyone planning a trip to Florida: massive, smelly globs of seaweed and algae calle Sargassum are currently headed toward the state's shores.

Science & Energy

Huge Blobs Headed Toward Florida

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A drone captured an incredibly rare — and anxiety-inducing — sight: a pod of 30 killer Orca whales hunting two full-grown gray whales in a five-hour battle.

Drone Video Captures Furious Battle Between Orcas and Gray Whales

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian deep sea mining firm The Metals Company has been accused by its own scientists of meddling with their data and dumping sediment into the ocean.

Scientists Alarmed by Video of Deep Sea Mining Company Spewing Waste Into Ocean

By Frank Landymore

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.

Scientists Dye Chunks of Ocean Water Pink for Head-Turning Coastal Experiment

By Frank Landymore

The acclaimed director says he's put an end to the endless fan debate "once and for all," and that we'll soon see the results in an upcoming special.

James Cameron Says He Commissioned a Scientific Study on Whether Jack Could Have Survived in “Titanic”

By Frank Landymore

Welcome to "Nemo's Garden," a beautiful underwater garden off of Italy's Northwestern coast. The underwater greenhouses are called "biospheres."

Science & Energy

Divers Growing Veggies in Underwater Greenhouses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A dazzling array of fabulously strange deep sea creatures were just discovered off of Australia's Western Coast — some new, some just very rare.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Bizarre New Deep Sea Creatures

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As part of the ongoing "Voyage to the Ridge 2022" expedition, scientists exploring the ocean floor have stumbled across an unidentified "blue goo" organism.

Science & Energy

Bizarre “Blue Goo” Organism at Bottom of Ocean Stumps Scientists

By Frank Landymore

The remains of one newly discovered, ancient coral reef, believed to be some millions of years old, have been discovered in an Australian desert plain.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Remnants of Huge Coral Reef in Middle of Desert

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Actor Jason Mamoa has taken to Instagram to ferociously protest single-use plastics by shaving his hair off. Is that effective activism?

Jason Momoa So Furious About Environment That He Shaved His Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA planetary scientist Alan Stern just visited the Titanic, and now he's getting ready to blast off into space with Virgin Galactic.

Guy Who Just Visited the Titanic in a Submarine Now Headed to Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Ocean Builders has unveiled the SeaPod, a rounded, two-person luxury pod home that hovers above the ocean by way of buoyant, air-filled steel tubes.

Science & Energy

Startup Selling Luxurious Homes That Poke Out of the Ocean on Stalks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NOAA Ocean Exploration scientists came across a series of organized sublinear holes on the Mid-Atlantic ocean floor, and it's unclear who or what made them.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Strange Row of Holes on Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"All members of this group of crabs are hairy to some extent but this one is ridiculous," said Andrew Hosie, an expert at the Western Australia Museum.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Horrifying Crab That’s Covered in “Hair”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold Fernanda, who, through genetic sequencing, has been confirmed as the only known Fernandina Giant Tortoise in the world.

Science & Energy

Giant Tortoise, Thought to Be Totally Extinct, Suddenly Found Chilling on Island

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A heavy machinery maker in Japan called IHI Corp has successfully tested a prototype of a massive turbine that can generate electricity from ocean currents.

Science & Energy

Japan Tested a Giant Turbine That Generates Electricity Using Deep Ocean Currents

By Victor Tangermann

Australian scientists got a fascinating surprise whenthey discovered what appears to be the world's largest organism, living under the ocean.

Scientists Discover World’s Largest Organism, Chilling Out Under Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two robotic buoys will relay location info on North Atlantic right whales back to shore so mariners and the public can help save the endangered species.

Marine Scientists Deploy Whale-Monitoring Robots to Save Endangered Species

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Two homes in North Carolina collapsed into the ocean. The most recent house was on stilts. Local park service captured video of the moment.

Watch an Entire House Suddenly Fall Into the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crew aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus discvered a "yellow brick road" that looks it leads to Atlantis. Climage change may affect future ocean studies.

Scientists Discover Something That Looks Like a Road Deep Under the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Swimmer Ben Lecomte swam the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, where fish and animals thrive. Life created an entire unexpected ecosystem.

Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A study published by Princeton co-authors says climate change and carbon emissions are killing ocean and marine life so fast it could cause mass extinction.

Humans Causing Worst Ocean Extinction Event Since Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Christopher Reddy, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, warns that a decaying oil tanker anchored off the coast of Yemen could explode.

Scientist Warns That a Huge Tanker Is Probably Going to Spill a Million Barrels of Oil Into the Ocean

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists may have discovered a new squat lobster species in the Antarctic on the Endurance shipwreck, lost for more than 100 years in the Weddell Sea.

Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Discovered a New Species on the Endurance Shipwreck

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be doing more harm than if we stopped polluting the ocean with plastic in the first place.

Marine Scientists Say Pulling Plastic Out of the Ocean Isn’t Even Worth It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

DNA Test Finds Endangered Species in Cat and Dog Food

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A giant cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars called the Felicity Ace is now adrift in the Pacific Ocean, burning, without its crew.

Fire Engulfs Cargo Ship Carrying Thousands of Luxury Cars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Indonesia's government is leaving and moving the country’s capital of Jakarta to the island of Borneo due to sinking, pollution and congestion.

Indonesia Is Switching Capital Cities Because the Old One Is Sinking Into the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tsunami waves that hit Tonga's Pacific island nation shores following an underwater volcano eruption— and if you want, you can watch in real time.

Science & Energy

Hey Kids, Wanna See Satellite Footage of a Volcano Violently Erupting?

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Eleven sailors stuck aboard an abandoned, damaged ship sent a frantic email for help. The crew were running out of food and began fishing to survive.

Science & Energy

Leaking Ship, Full of Hazardous Cargo, Sends Email With “SOS” in Subject Line

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers have captured stunning and rare footage of a giant squid hunting and swimming in the deep ocean waters off the Gulf of Mexico.

Amazing Video Shows Giant Squid Hunting Deep Underwater

By Tony Ho Tran

A giant octopus attacked a 34-year-old geologist in Dunsborough, Australia on March 18 — and video of their confrontation has gone viral.

Science & Energy

Giant Octopus Attacks Australian Geologist

By Tony Ho Tran

If companies are given free rein to scrape the ocean floor for precious minerals, entire undiscovered ecosystems will be snuffed out.

This Plan to Mine the Ocean Floor May Erase Whole Ecosystems

By Dan Robitzski

The first expedition for Boaty McBoatface has taught researchers something new about how climate change in Antarctic waters affects the rest of the world.

Boaty McBoatface Makes Major Discovery on Maiden Voyage

By Kristin Houser

The Earth's oceans are gradually leaking into the interior of the Earth — though nowhere near fast enough to cancel out climate change.

Science & Energy

New Research: The Oceans Are Slowly Leaking Into the Earth

By Jon Christian

When Victor Vescovo broke the record for deepest ocean dive, he noticed what he believes was a plastic bag and some candy wrappers in the deep sea.

Diver Reaches Record Ocean Depth — and Finds a Plastic Bag

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers discovered the unusual way in which water cycles on Mars. It's a clue as to why Mars turned into a dry and desolate place.

Surprising Discovery: Mars Is Leaking Hydrogen from Water Vapor

By Victor Tangermann

China is planning an underwater base that sounds like a bold initiative to learn more about the uncharted depths of the ocean.

Robots and Machines

Details Emerge About China’s Mysterious Underwater Base

By Jon Christian

MIT researchers suggest we pay attention to the oceans' color to track marine ecosystem changes caused by climate change.

Global Warming Is Changing the Oceans’ Color

By Kristin Houser

Chinese scientists built a robot submarine designed to travel into storms to fire meteorological rockets that will collect data from the atmosphere.

China Built a Robot Submarine to Shoot Rockets Into Typhoons

By Jon Christian

A new underwater tent provides scuba divers with a portable, air-filled resting area while they decompress or conduct research.

Science & Energy

Air-Filled Tent Lets Scuba Divers Camp Out Underwater

By Dan Robitzski

We’re Drinking so Much Water That We’re Actually Making the Ocean Saltier

Science & Energy

We’re Drinking so Much Water That We’re Actually Making the Ocean Saltier

By Kristin Houser

Atlantic Circulation Weakening: No, We’re Not All Gonna Die (I Mean, Not Because Of This)

Atlantic Circulation Weakening: No, We’re Not All Gonna Die (I Mean, Not Because Of This)

By Claudia Geib

A Web of Sensors May Uncover Secrets of the Deep Oceans

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A Web of Sensors May Uncover Secrets of the Deep Oceans

By Claudia Geib

Our Oceans Are Warming Faster Than We Thought

Our Oceans Are Warming Faster Than We Thought

By Patrick Caughill

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Nuclear Fuel From the Ocean Would Provide Thousands of Years Worth of Energy

By Kathleen Riley

Time for Action: There Are 5.25 Trillion Pieces of Plastic Polluting Our Oceans

Time for Action: There Are 5.25 Trillion Pieces of Plastic Polluting Our Oceans

By Cecille De Jesus

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The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” Is Even Bigger Than We Thought

By Jess Vilvestre

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From Quarks to Quasars

The World’s Most Horrific Graveyard Shows Where Deadly Creatures Go to Die

By Jaime Trosper