Even when we think we know everything, or that we think we have a grasp on what species occur in our environment, we don’t,” ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Parasphaerasclera mcfaddenae is a new species of soft coral that has a yellow center and long polyps with tentacles ... colorful mesophotic zone of the ocean located between the surface and ...

The ocean was a home, but in school ... It’s also the animal that builds that structure: an anemone-like polyp less than a centimeter long. By building calcium carbonate cups one on top of another and ...

Duygu Sevilgen uses extremely small sensors to record the fine details of coral skeletons and listen to their dialogue with ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

A total of 866 new marine species have been discovered in just 16 months by the Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Census as they ...