A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

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Case in point, it was announced earlier this month 866 new marine animal species have been discovered by the Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census. Among those creatures found are a new species of ...

Turtles are among the longest-living animals on the planet, with some species capable of living for over 100 years and ...

‘Sea snakes show various adaptations to marine life ... Climate change also threatens these animals because they are finely adapted to their environment and will suffer the effects of rising sea ...

The deep ocean is dark, cold, and under immense pressure. Marine life that lives here must have special adaptations to survive such as bioluminescence, which means animals that can emit their own ...

Its neck vertebrae are shorter, giving it a less flexible, more stable neck -- an adaptation for swimming also seen in other aquatic animals such as sea cows, and in an extreme form in modern whales.

Once prevalent in every ocean except the Arctic and Antarctic, the leatherback population is rapidly declining in many parts of the world. While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells ...