In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London, two researchers slide open a plain storage cupboard door to reveal a hidden treasure: shelves of fossilised corals, up to 30 million years ...

A new study has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different parts of the ocean) is a key influence for fish abundance across the Western Indian Ocean ...

Sports shops routinely sell snorkelling gear to city slickers. All of this crossed my mind as I waded into the turquoise ...

Hope Spot Champions Rili Djohani and Wira Sanjaya are restoring damaged reefs in the Coral Triangle in Indonesia.  Read more ...

There are more than 50 species of snakes that live in the seas. Some are super venomous and they can zip through the water ...

A team of marine biologists had done everything they could to set the stage for something akin to a romantic evening for a tank full of coral ... as oases on the ocean floor is their relationship ...

Eileen Ahlquist is known as the “Berry Queen” because of her passion and enthusiasm for removing invasive plants that are threatening the ecosystems of north central Florida parks.

The hope is that the eggs will fertilize and then grow -- albeit incredibly slowly -- into new coral. Already ... oil from its wellhead on the ocean floor for four months before being capped.

Sue Kim’s documentary following South Korea’s free-diving haenyeo, beset by generational shifts and climate change, is as ...

Researchers have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that are strikingly similar to molecules that make life as we know it possible. These nanostructures are ...

When seawater seeps way down into the Earth through cracks in the ocean floor, it gets heated by magma ... a vital function in modern plant, animal, and microbial life, can occur abiotically ...