Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising ...

Killing the protected animals may be the only way to stop them from eating too many of the Pacific Northwest’s endangered ...

Global nonprofit The Greater Good Charities and the New England Aquarium have partnered to rescue and rehabilitate hundreds ...

Nine crew members of a commercial crab boat were hoisted to safety after the boat named the Arctic Sea grounded on an Alaska ...

Guardian writers and readers share the simple tricks they use to bring a bit of joy into their lives ...

A seven-arm octopus was spotted in Monterey Bay in Nov. 6, 2025; the 'rarely seen' deep-sea octopus was spotted by researchers who've only seen it four times in nearly four decades.

Authorities ended a 15-hour search for Monterey County's Erica Fox, missing after a shark attack off Lovers Point in ...

The potential ecological consequences of deep-sea mining gained attention recently after a team of European researchers, through collecting data from an industrial trial, reported a sharp reduction in ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

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