Pay for commercial fishermen across the West Coast has plummeted over the last decade, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Median annual cr ...

During an expedition to Antarctica, scientists discovered a species of sea squirt that may promise a new cancer treatment.

Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustacean, all previously unknown to science, have been formally described from the ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by ...

The bush-dwelling penguins of New Zealand’s South Island offer Jamie Lafferty an insight into the species’ evolution and ...

They’re long. They’re ancient. Their hideous whorl of a mouth looks like a “vortex of pain.” But sea lamprey are native to ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.