Ocean

Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth. This is the latest on protecting their vast ecosystems.

Latest in Ocean

purple bones from a sea otter in a tide pool

Sea otter bones can turn purple

By Laura Baisas

an underwater robot scans a red fish

31 alien-like marine species discovered off the coast of Brazil

By Sara Hashemi

Collage showing a red submersible partly underwater.

Before the moon race, explorers wanted to conquer the ocean

By Bill Gourgey

Exterior photograph of DEEP's Vanguard underwater installation surrounded by fish in the Florida Keys

Underwater research lab installed in the Florida Keys

a humpback whale breaches in the arabian sea with desert hills in the distance

For the first time, biologists observe a humpback whale crossing the Arabian Sea

By Laura Baisas

a whale swims at the surface of the water

Young humpback whale freed from fishing line near Cape Cod

By Laura Baisas

a pregnant male sea horse

Florida students watch male seahorse give birth in the wild

By Laura Baisas

a woman in a blue baseball cap holds a turtle on the beach

Rare hybrid sea turtle released back into the ocean after rescue

By Margherita Bassi

Happy laughing little girl slides down on a pink water slide in outdoor swimming pool on a hot summer day. She's wearing goggles and a orange bikini.

What’s the safest swimsuit color? Skip blue and black.

By Nidhi Sharma

a woman sits in a high-tech rowboat in the ocean

Kelsey Pfendler is trying to become the youngest woman to row solo from California to Hawaii

By Mack DeGeurin

a robot scouring a reef

It’s a barracuda! It’s a shrimp! It’s a robot helping coral reefs.

By Mack DeGeurin

hairy ghost pipefish Solenostomus snuffleupagus, which looks like Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street

Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef

Young white boy in grey pullover holds a robot turtle posing in front of a small pond.

Teen builds ‘Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle’ to detect ecological threats

By Laura Kiniry

Close up of speartooth shark

Shark lasers could help save vulnerable species

a whale breaching with a bridge in view

‘Save Willy Act’ introduced in California to help save whales in Bay Area

By Margherita Bassi

Chonkers the Steller sea lion sleeping along side other, much smaller California sea lions

Chonkers the 2,000-pound sea lion is making waves in San Francisco Bay

Iceberg underwater, Antarctica.

300-degree hot springs hiding under the frozen Antarctic sea

50,000 illegal shark fins found inside fake car part boxes

Two humpback whales underwater

513 humpback whales gather at massive Caribbean breeding ground

24 new species of deep sea organisms. they are small and resemble shrimp

New crustacean named after its unique butt

By Laura Baisas