A detailed investigation into these strange creatures is finally giving scientists and fishermen valuable clues about when ...

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Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition in Monterey Bay. The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by ...

As temperatures drop below freezing across New England, an unlikely animal is also in need of a little warmth this winter. Mystic Aquarium said it recently received more than a dozen cold-stunned sea ...

Equinor ASA and Shell PLC have completed the combination of their oil and gas operations on the United Kingdom's side of the North Sea. Launched Monday, Adura, the 50-50 joint venture, "will be the UK ...

Shell and Equinor have formally combined their UK offshore oil and gas operations to create Adura, a new 50:50 joint venture that instantly becomes the largest independent producer in the UK North Sea ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

Japanese researchers have described a new species of sea anemone that appears to share a mutually beneficial relationship with hermit crabs. The pale pink sea anemones, now named Paracalliactis ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...

When Jonas Wüst first met rescue divers in Switzerland, what struck him wasn’t their courage, it was how much danger still defined their work. “We realized how outdated it all was,” he recalls.

Nestled underneath the Boston Seaport's ever-changing landscape of shops, offices and swanky restaurants is a science experiment. For the past year, scientists with the Stone Living Lab at UMass have ...