Using micro-drills, scientists extract material from an otolith’s individual annual rings to measure ocean chemistry year by ...

Emily Miller and her friends had planned for a relaxing day of kayaking in La Jolla last weekend — a reunion of sorts for the former roommates. But when they reached La Jolla Cove, the kayakers — most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue A deep-sea fish that already seems as though it belongs in science ...

Behold, the latest in deep-sea fashion: An unfortunate fish sporting parasitic copepods as pigtails. An international team of scientists affiliated with the Schmidt Ocean Institute and the Woods Hole ...

For the first known time, a team of scientists in China filmed a strange, shrimp-like fish walking backward along the seafloor. The fish, Scalicus engyceros, is a species of armored searobin, a group ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fishing experts are looking for ways to fish in the mesopelagic zone, a layer of water that stretches from 200-1,000 meters (660-3,300 feet) ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 ...

Ocean fish populations have fallen dramatically in the past half-century, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse. Governments have designated “marine protected areas”, where where ...