The colossal squid is the largest squid in terms of mass, weighing in at 495kg. The squid’s tentacles are only released when ...

This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The animal kingdom contains a vast array of animals capability of remarkable regenerative abilities, but known are quite as ...

Cheers rose from a bundled-up crowd as a loggerhead sea turtle that survived a likely shark attack trundled back into the ocean after months of ...

Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

On Wednesday, the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach opened an exhibit where visitors for the first time can watch sick ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

For eight hours, all they saw were dolphins and the spouts of humpback and gray whales. Then, the call went out.

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Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...