A venomous lionfish is pictured above and below. A 2016 expansion of the Panama Canal helped bigger ships move through the ...

Seamounts attract sharks and marine predators, with 41 times more sharks than open waters. These mountains act as social hubs ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

A Climate Regulator The Gulf Stream is like a giant conveyor belt, transporting warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the ...

On an average, it takes up to 12 years to add a species to the federal Endangered Species list, a backlog activists say puts ...

With their eel-like bodies, vampire teeth and suction cup mouths, the main characters of a new documentary resemble something out of the "Dune" science fiction films. The sea lamprey nearly destroyed ...

Half of the unprovoked shark attacks in the U.S. last year took place along the Florida coastline, new data shows.

Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

There are fewer than 400 North Atlantic right whales, whose numbers have decreased exponentially due to the fishing industry.

Researchers studying striped bass in the Atlantic have identified a worrisome interaction between overfishing and rising ...

If recent reports of a North Atlantic right whale calf and its mother spotted in a busy shipping lane between New Jersey and New York are any indication that more are to come, an artificial ...