In the Peruvian desert, a 9-million-year-old fossil has been discovered, offering a rare glimpse into one of the largest ...

Fish do not get thirsty in the same way humans do, but their bodies constantly interact with water through a process called ...

One of Earth’s most biodiverse marine regions is threatened by the expansion of nickel mining projects in Indonesia, ...

What’s 66-million-year-old vomit like? A lot more pleasant than the fresh stuff, says paleontologist Jesper Milan.

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

Many blacktip reef sharks in French Polynesia are commonly fed by tourists. But the low-quality diet is changing the sharks’ behavior and physiology.

Marine biologists diving in the Gulf of Thailand were thrilled in 2023 to rediscover several colonies of a rare type of ocean sponge once thought to be extinct in the wild. But their excitement ...

Experts believe this could be a case of parthenogenesis, a rare form of asexual reproduction where a female can produce offspring without a male, or delayed fertilisation, where the fertilisation ...

The South Carolina Aquarium will be closed on Tuesday, Feb. 4, for a day dedicated to staff training and team building, ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living ...

Marine experts at the Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana, USA, are astonished by the birth of a baby shark. The baby was born ...

The birth of a baby shark at Shreveport aquarium has flummoxed marine experts. The newborn hatched in a tank with no male presence and whose only inhabitants were female sharks. Though the aquarium's ...