Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one of Earth’s largest mass extinctions.

NASA has taken images of an incredible phytoplankton display around the Chatham Islands where warm and colder water converge ...

Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

An expansive, glowing mass of marine life has been observed from space off the southern coast of Australia. NASA satellites captured the unusual turquoise glow blooming across the Great Australian ...

Beneath the surface of the South China Sea, researchers have identified a vast sinkhole in the seafloor that functions as a ...

For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

Ocean scientists have been utilizing satellite technology to provide a clearer look at the plankton that form the foundation of aquatic ecosystems. What they're finding, according to The New York ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

A coral reef at the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Roughly 2 million species live in the world's oceans. But scientists ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...