Ocean sunfish weighing an estimated 1,000 pounds shows resiliency after possible great white shark attack off Tasmania.

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small ...

Rarely found in the Southern Ocean, a 2.5-metre sunfish washed up on WA's Lowlands Beach between Denmark and Albany could be ...

Species discovery Advances in technology have allowed us to reach the ocean's darkest depths but scientists estimate we know about just 10 percent of what lives in our seas. And before we even ...

The recent flurry of expeditions launched by the Ocean Census used divers, submersibles and deep-sea robots up to 5000 meters below sea level to discover new species. The species were analyzed and ...

And before we even realise a new species exists, "we are losing that diversity", said Lucy Woodall, a marine biologist and head of science at Ocean Census. Launched in 2023, the global alliance of ...

The sunfish family includes the world's largest living bony fish, comprising three genera and five species. The study found that species of ocean sunfish exhibit resource partitioning, relying on food ...

In Norway’s Jøtul Vent Field, a 35-day expedition into the depths of the Arctic Ocean revealed a new species of deep-sea limpet (Cocculina genus) living more than 3,000 meters (10,000 feet ...