A distressed female loggerhead sea turtle was rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard crew about seven miles south of Sugarloaf Key on ...

About 252 million years ago, something close to apocalyptic swept through the oceans. New research finally cracks open why some sea creatures survived that catastrophe while others simply blinked out ...

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...

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Singapore will begin a landmark coastal protection project by the end of this year, aiming to reclaim as much as 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land to protect against rising sea levels. Preparatory ...

A kilometer down in the ocean, football-sized roly-polies slowly clamber along the seafloor. Their metabolism is so slow that they can go years between meals. Now, researchers have found a genetic ...

Louse-borne relapsing fever is caused by the spirochete bacterium Borrelia recurrentis, which is transmitted by body lice (not head lice). The disease was first described by Hippocrates (460–370 B.C.) ...

HOUSTON – Houston Zoo visitors who spent time near the sea lion habitat likely remember Jonah — the California sea lion who was hard to miss, not just because of his size, but because of his ...

Indonesia plans to build a "giant sea wall," more than 500 kilometers long, to defend Java's north coast from rising sea levels. The proposal includes a large lagoon behind the colossal concrete wall, ...

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long hunter that ruled ancient oceans 80 million years ago. The discovery ...