We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

A recently published study explores the relationship between sea spiders and bacteria. Discover more and meet one of the ...

For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures have lived off of this whale’s body by stripping it and burrowing into ...

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that ...

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Scientists uncover rare parasitic snails living inside sea cucumbers in Japan—offering new insights into unusual animal relationships.

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

Many animals that live in water need to come up to the surface to breathe, but they can still spend impressive lengths of ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a ...

Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of the ocean, the greenhouse gas is a nourishing meal for some of the ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...