Drone video captures filmmaker’s biggest great white yet as it appears to size up a whale calf
A drone video captured a remarkable moment in the open ocean, as a very large great white shark…
A Sea Anemone Uses CARDIB to Fight Viruses—and It’s Even More Bizarre Than It Sounds
Floating outside the salt marsh silt it usually nestles in, the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) looks a…
Zombie Chunks of Sea Cucumber Refuse to Die, Raising Questions About What It Means to Live Forever
Scientists may have casually stumbled upon immortality through severed tissues that linger on the line between life and…
The Evolutionary Mystery of Starfish Arms
Red starfish in the aquarium© Ratchapon Supprasert/iStock via Getty Images Quick Take Most animals have a bilateral body…
The Sea Urchin Apocalypse Is Real, and It Might Be Spreading Globally, Scientists Warn
An apocalyptic serial killer of sea urchins is on the loose, scientists are warning—and the path of destruction…
Kayakers capture scary video of face-to-face encounter with giant shark: ‘Hungry animals’
A group of kayakers off the coast of Australia endured a terrifying ordeal after a massive great white…
A Snorkeler in Nova Scotia Thought This Was a Leaf, but It Was Something Far Weirder
It’s a black blob! It’s a rotten leaf! No, it’s a slug, and a pretty cool one at…
Video shows seal escape pod of killer whales by jumping onto boat
See seal escape killer whales by hopping on photographer’s boat A wildlife photographer recorded an incredible video of…
Scientists Wanted to Know How Many Squid Pilot Whales Eat Each Day. What They Found Was Astounding
Here’s some important life advice: do not try to challenge a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) to a…
These 5 animals are the largest to have roamed the Earth (One is still lives today)
The Earth has been home to some truly colossal creatures, and among the giants that have roamed our…
Diver Films World’s Largest Jellyfish Species at Night, and the Video Is Hypnotizing
An underwater videographer has just published mesmerizing footage of the world’s largest, longest, and heaviest known jellyfish species—a…
The Ocean Is a Carbon Toilet. Marine Heat Waves Are Clogging It.
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The planet would be a whole…