Science & the Sea

They’re tiny and they’re brainless, but the box jellyfish of Australia, known to science as Carukia barnesi, packs a deadly...

Living in near-total darkness requires some creative adaptations both to find food and avoid becoming food. For the red-colored strawberry...

It’s said that sharks can smell a drop of blood in water a mile away. Depending on the shark species...

Dads always build the best sand castles — at least when it comes to the white-spotted pufferfish. Males of this...

Although they frequently swim with their massive mouths wide open to feed, basking sharks don’t look like the Jaws-type predator...

The naming of a new genus and species of crab goes to show that the magic of J.K. Rowling can...

They went looking for typical calls of blue, minke, fin, humpback andother whales who live in the area of Mariana...

Bowhead whales and Greenland sharks can live up to two centuries, and century-old Galapagos giant tortoises are just young adults....

A disguise only works if others can’t detect it, whether on land or under the sea. Mirror-like scales help many...

Cancer isn’t generally contagious, but the leukemia ravaging some soft shell clam populations on the East Coast has broken that...