Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may kill the neuston. Biologist Rebecca Helm says surface skimming risks this vital ...

Q. Someone told me that the body and arms of calamari, like you eat in a restaurant, can be more than 40 feet long. I’m not sure I believe my ...

Jessica Gee of The Bucket List Family debuts a new family travel guide with expert tips for traveling with kids and the best kid-friendly places to stay.

For more than a century, sea otters vanished from Washington’s waters, hunted to extinction. Now, their slow return is ...

Chris Emmet from the Birch Aquarium at Scripps discusses the care and conditions needed to ensure the giant Pacific octopus ...

A female humpback whale who washed ashore in Newport Beach was washed back out to sea, but scientists were able to gather a wealth of information.

A massive dead humpback whale that washed ashore in Newport Beach earlier this week was towed out to sea Friday after drifting back offshore overnight, and marine scientists used the rare stranding ...

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile ...

Yachats is the first community on the Pacific Coast to be named a Bird City by the Bird City Network, which has about 300 ...

The whale was determined to be a female, measuring approximately 29.5 feet in length and weighing about 11 tons.

Scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute have identified a massive undersea peak along the Salas y Gomez Ridge in the southeastern Pacific, a formation that rises higher from the ocean floor than ...

Deep-sea researchers captured rare footage of the bumpy snailfish, an unusual species living approximately 62 miles off ...