This adorable sea lion has to eat five to eight percent of its body weight every day to stay healthy and hydrated. Over the ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have identified a single mechanical ratio that dozens of unrelated sea creatures, from ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Sunlight, the lifeblood of the ocean’s surface, penetrates ...

Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

Old World War II bombs resting on the Baltic Sea floor reveal a remarkable marine ecosystem teeming with life.

In an age of exhausting AI-generated videos and manipulated images purporting to showcase real marine life that have never been seen by human eyes, it's easy to forget that there are actually ...