Believed to be at least 4,500 years old, this plant is now considered the largest known plant on Earth, covering an area of approximately 77 square miles in the shallow waters of Shark Bay.

Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that are found in shallow waters in many parts of ... Covering only 0.1% of the ocean floor, these seagrass meadows provide food and shelter to thousands ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

The heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded weighed a whopping 1280 pounds.” The great hammerhead shark is found in a ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for ...

"They are also important nutrient producers in shallow ocean water, which is generally deprived of food. If the giant clam ...

On Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, its kind live in ... shading out many native plants. Unlike the island's indigenous trees, it has a shallow root system, which has led to landslides ...

A team of researchers has discovered macroscopic life beneath the seafloor of the deep ocean, one of Earth’s most extreme environments. The discovery both complicates scientists’ understanding ...

The Black Triangle gets its name from the coal burned by nearby power plants ... that the deep ocean lacked oxygen in the late Permian. But most life is concentrated in shallow water, in places ...

The Atlantic Ocean also started to ... which were once islands in a shallow sea. Jurassic ammonites, bivalves, mammaliaform teeth and lizards are just some of the fossils that have turned up here. As ...