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a scientist holds a large, reddish-purple sea star with 24 legs

Meet the 24-armed sea star, a kelp forest’s bodyguard

By Laura Baisas

Seaweed farmer in Bali, Indonesia on November 23, 2018.

Kelp farming isn’t as green as it seems

By Veronique Carignan / Undark

A sea otter resting in a kelp bed in Monterey Bay, California.

Sea otters can help conserve vital kelp forests

By Laura Baisas

Kelp holds a timeline of Earth’s history

Kelp holds a timeline of Earth’s history

By Bill Morris / Hakai Magazine

a sea otter with its paw on its head

6 fun photos to celebrate Sea Otter Awareness week

By Popular Science Team

two orca whales come into contact with one another and a piece of kelp is between them

Orcas spotted using seaweed to groom each other

By Laura Baisas

A steak with kelp on top is plated by a chef holding a sauce pan.

This sea-to-farm-to-table restaurant wants kelp to catch on

By Laura Baisas

a big cat with flamingo in its mouth dead

13 riveting images from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Witness tree in Eutaw Springs, South Carolina

Arborists use supersonic air to save 300-year-old tree that survived American Revolution

a person wearing gloves holds a large gelatinous greenish blob

‘Cursed gummybear’ spotted in Lake Huron

By Laura Baisas

bird flies with frog in its mouth

16 gorgeous images from the 1839 Awards’ Color Photography Contest

By Popular Science Team

Equipment including an electrochemical reactor where seawater is split via electrolysis to capture carbon on a barge for UCLA's SeaChange climate change carbon removal project at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California on April 12, 2023. The project is now known as Equatic.

Marine carbon dioxide removal is about to go big

By Ramin Skibba / Hakai Magazine

Scientists and Indigenous people team up to build a kelp seed bank

Scientists and Indigenous people team up to build a kelp seed bank

By Natalia Mesa/Hakai Magazine

Sargassum algae piles up along the shore at a beach in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

31 million tons of seaweed ready to stink up Florida’s beaches

By Laura Baisas

An aerial view, taken from a drone, shows two enormous blue whales swimming just below the surface of dark blue ocean water. The whale on the left appears larger, and its skin texture and shape are clearly visible under the water.

Flying with whales: Drones are remaking marine mammal research

By Gennaro Tomma / Knowable Magazine

a turtle hatchling on a large pile of brown seaweed

Sea turtle hatchlings struggle through a smelly seaweed maze

By Laura Baisas

iPhone Duo in action

Everything Apple just announced at its fall 2026 event: The folding iPhone Duo, iPhone 18, Apple Watch Series 12, and new AirPods

By Stan Horaczek

glass bowl filled with brown seaweed

Bye, kale: Marine scientists want you to eat more seaweed

By Alisha McDarris

They swim and they spin: Meet the aquatic spiders

They swim and they spin: Meet the aquatic spiders

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

a school of sardines swarms the mouth of a whale

Dive into 11 remarkable images from the 2024 Underwater Photographer of the Year competition

By Annie Colbert

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Artwork depicting feathered raptors scavenging a dead Albertosaurus

A baby tyrannosaur possibly cannibalized its dead relative

An image of a squid taken at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, using light sheet microscopy.

Squid are covered in little hairs like the ones in your ear

By Margherita Bassi

Painting of a gladiator standing over his opponent awaiting a kill order from the emperor.

Ancient Romans thought drinking gladiator blood could cure epilepsy

By Shoshi Parks

a tortoise with its mouth open

Giant tortoises now outnumber people in the Seychelles

By Laura Baisas