Our oceans are vast, open environments teeming with an amazing variety of plant and animal species ... and sustainability of ocean ecosystems are under threat like never before. From krill to great ...

Smithsonian researchers study the ocean and freshwater ecosystems around the world. Using collections, SCUBA, submersibles, and more we ask questions about marine biodiversity, coastal ecosystems, ...

"To our knowledge, it is the first time that animal life has been discovered in the ocean crust," marine biologist Sabine ...

Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these ... eating plastic thinking it’s food,” says Matthew Savoca, a marine biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

In recent years, numerous studies have examined the dangers of marine animals and more specifically ... plastic continues to harm more and more marine ecosystems. It is our duty to develop ...

Before this discovery, which was published on Tuesday in the Nature Communications journal, it was thought that only microbes and viruses could live beneath ... first time that animal life has been ...