Anyone visiting the seaside knows to protect their chips and ice cream from beady–eyed seagulls. But there's another hazard associated with the birds – their poop. Now experts have revealed just how ...

New fossils reveal that these gentle giants of the sea have been helping our oceans for 21 million years.

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

A plane carrying 250 people was canceled before it completed its journey after a rat was allegedly found on board, according ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers. This is shown by new research based on analyses of a mosasaur tooth found in ...

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.