The marine mammal — an infrequent visitor to the shores of the Emerald Isle — was spotted in the Waterford Estuary on the ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

From a distance, they look like tiny white dots floating on the sea. But get closer, and you’ll see people sitting on ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

It’s November, springtime in Cancas, a coastal community in northern Peru, and the sea is calm; it only gets rough at the ...

As the recreational fishery chips away at shark populations outside the boundaries of scientists’ data books — and as a new ...

Máximo Napa Castro, a Peruvian fisherman, was recently rescued after being stranded at sea; now, he’s telling his story of ...

A Peruvian fisherman survived 95 days at sea before being rescued and reunited with his family this week. Maximo Napa Castro, 61, set off for a fishing trip from the southern Peruvian coast on Dec. 7 ...

TOKYO -- With Japan's main deep-sea research vessel set to go out of service as early as the 2030s and no replacement in sight, the country risks falling even further behind China, which has the ...

BOSTON — Officials on Monday revealed new details regarding the wrapped body hauled in by fishing boat off the Massachusetts coast Thursday. The body was that of a woman, around 60 years old and had ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

A group of men fishing off the north coast of New Zealand were in for a surprise when a dolphin weighing more than 600 pounds appeared to fall out of the sky and crashed onto their small boat.