Have you ever thought about what would happen if all life in the ocean disappeared? A recent study explores this extreme scenario to understand how ocean biology shapes the past, present, and future ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons colonized the open ocean. When they died, their remains fell like snow ...

A marine iguana ‘mid-sneeze’, a troupe of skeleton shrimps that has colonized a gorgonian coral and a spaceship-like jellyfish seemingly departing Earth’s atmosphere are among the wonderful finalists ...

Exclusive: Tasha Van Zandt's documentary about pioneering oceanographer and bioluminescence obsessive Dr. Edith Widder will only make you want to see (literally, figuratively) more. Of all the great, ...

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries meet their pledges to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving ...

Scientists have known for decades that soaring atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions are causing changes in ocean chemistry, threatening marine life and ecosystems. In June 2025, a study found that ...

The ocean covers more than two-thirds of our planet, yet it remains one of Earth’s greatest mysteries. While we’ve mapped every crater on the moon and sent rovers to Mars, the depths below our own ...

This is the hundred-year tale of how an unlikely bunch of bottom-dwelling marine critters helped reveal that ocean basins are basically reincarnated every few hundred million years. Eons is available ...