They were said to emerge whenever a tooth went bad, perishing as soon as a crack or cavity exposed them to air. It’s a genius plot twist for a worm that doesn’t exist, as if you crack open an infected ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

The 2025 Ocean Art Photography Competition celebrates life beneath the surface, from intimate encounters to rare marine behaviors and striking flora and fauna.

North Atlantic pilot whales have been found to have 60% lower concentrations of PFAS (per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances) in their bodies following a phasing-out of some of the most commonly used ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

When the price of gold hit more than $4,000 per ounce for the first time in October, it set off a chain of events in four ...

A new eel pass has been created in the New Forest to help one of the UK’s most enigmatic and endangered species.

Multiple Zones in Hytale divide the vast open world of Orbis: Emerald Grove, Howling Sands, Borea, and Devastated Lands. Each ...

Japan’s endangered freshwater eels were found in over 50 rivers in Hokkaido, far more than previously believed, a survey showed.

The oceans just keep getting hotter. According to new research from dozens of international scientists published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences early on Friday, the world’s oceans stored more ...