Strange creatures straight out of a science-fiction movie have been captured by scientists off the coast of Antarctica. Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea ...

coral reefs, African elephants, cranes, tamarin monkeys, sharks and rays, butterflies and sea turtles. UF is the only university in this global consortium and is focusing specifically on ...

But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...

Corolla ovate is a rarely encountered species of sea butterfly. Found all around the world’s oceans at depths of up to 2km, this tiny creature is known to haunt the coast of Australia, in the Bismarck ...

One fragile creature scientists were able to study was a sea butterfly, a type of sea snail that glides majestically through water. The specimen they captured, nicknamed "Clio", laid eggs in one ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the findings that were registered in a directory after the collaborative ...

Ocean acidification is sinking into marine regions as deep as 1500 metres, posing new threats to organisms like sea butterflies ... sensitive ecosystems like coral reefs. But until now ...

Under the bright blue water of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, the view is stunning. Expansive coral reefs teeming with life; colorful fish and invertebrates. But something crucial has gone ...

Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life. It could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere ...

IT’S viruses against bacteria in the struggle to preserve the Red Sea’s renowned coral reefs. The corals have been fighting off bacteria that bleach and kill them. This “white plague ...