In August 2023 scientists discovered something utterly bizarre in the deep ocean off the coast of Alaska: a golden orb. The ...

This enigmatic orb has undergone extensive examination and DNA testing, enabling scientists to reveal its true origins ...

Researchers with NOAA and the Smithsonian announced the unusual object, first discovered in 2023 during a deep-sea expedition ...

The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, new ...

Whale-sized, monstrous octopuses prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and ...

Newly discovered organisms are still showing us just how little we know about life in the oceans; this includes a new type of ...

The mystery of the 'golden egg' discovered at the bottom of the ocean has finally been solved three years after the startling ...

False information, including claims of an "artificial earthquake," has spread on social media following a quake on Monday that registered up to upper 5, the fourth-highest level on the Japanese ...

Puget Sound and the Salish Sea are on the leading edge of an ocean acidification crisis that could devastate West Coast ...

Oceanographer and physicist Helen Czerski explains how the ocean's physics the Earth ahead of a talk at UH at Mānoa.