CaveCreek4.jpg Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave while on a June 8 hike in Santa Fe National Forest. The limestone, which is around 300 million ...

Researchers uncovered 263 fossilized squid beaks, including about 40 different species that had never been seen before.

Scientists delving into the unexplored regions of the Red Sea have uncovered perilous natural traps on the ocean floor. They identified brine pools located nearly 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in ...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — A Broken Arrow girl was named a finalist in the Duct Tape Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest.

For thousands of years, writers have come up with increasingly creative ways to describe the “wine-dark sea.” But a new study ...

After the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the southern California coast, marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected, and releasing the last few back into the wild.

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. This expands the set of organisms ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

Hurricanes stir deep ocean layers, bringing nutrients and low-oxygen zones to surface, study finds. ... small fish, and filter-feeding animals such as shellfish and baleen whales.