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.

After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle ...

Abandoned crab traps become “ghost gear,” continuing to catch and kill sea life after they’re no longer tended by their owner. The SCDNR wants help recording their location.

Atlantic mangrove fiddler crabs are found 200 miles north of their historic range, expanding due to warming ocean waters.

In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was ...

Octopuses are perhaps the most unusual creatures to have ever inhabited the ocean. Their soft body, eight arms, and high ...

Amgen and Abbott are ditching horseshoe crab blood for synthetic alternatives — a win for a 450-million-year-old species ...

Beneath the surface of the ocean lives a group of animals that are unlike almost anything on land. Known as arthropods, these ...

Nearly 1,000 abandoned crab traps were cleared from Texas bays this year, rescuing marine life and cleaning up coastlines ...

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

EADaily, March 13th, 2026. The composition of the fauna of the Sea of Azov is currently seriously changing, primarily due to the increase in salinity. As a result, previously unseen representatives of ...