Imagine a world where sunlight never touches the ocean floor, where bizarre creatures drift through inky black waters, and ...

The brand-new species was given the name Tripedalia maipoensis as a tribute to where scientists originally found the marine ...

Characidium dumonti lives among the rocks and pebbles at the bottom of the fast-flowing streams in the national park, according to a study published April 9 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish ...

Nope, it's not your imagination! The ocean is actually getting greener, according to scientists, and we found out why.

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of ...

West Virginia has its own share of strange animals, but a type of armadillo could be next on the list, if the species ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...

A new UC Berkeley study reveals how one dry winter decimated salmon and trout populations across Northern California — and ...

Longfin batfish, scientifically known as Platax teira, are a species of “brackish-water” fish typically found in the Western Pacific Ocean, researchers said. As juveniles, batfish have “elongated and ...

Scientists from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, together with colleagues from Central ...

Scientists and fishermen in Brazil caught an “armored” river creature known to sting and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Willian Massaharu Ohara via Tencatt, Ohara, Carvalho, and ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...