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.

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was ...

A new glowing nudibranch species is the first known to swim through the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Nicknamed the 'mystery mollusc,' the nudibranch Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Rising ocean temperatures have spurred mass bleaching events at ... IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species looked at ...

often to make sure species of animals or plants are not harmed. Coral reef – one of the most important ecosystems in the world. A large underwater structure in shallow ocean areas, made up of ...