Science & the Sea

They didn’t know what they would find when they set off for a month at sea on May 15, 2017....

Nemo may have been interested in exploring the great big ocean, but his dad Marlin’s attachment to their anemone is...

Harvey, Irma, Jose, Maria… the 2017 hurricane season has been intense, and it’s not just humans trying to recover from...

New discoveries in the ocean never end, but sometimes even the ocean’s largest animals can evade scientists. It takes perseverance,...

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...