A one-foot-long baby squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a ...

In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some attention for creatures who aren’t exactly panda-cute. Th ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National ... the Black Sea it reproduced so prolifically that by 1989 it had reached densities of up to 11 per cubic foot of water. Fish couldn ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Learn more about ocean life in Sea of ... on the bottom to eat as lustily as fish in the middle of the water and ...

Sea moss is rich in nutrients—but it can also contain dangerous levels of heavy metals and iodine. Here’s what to know before you take it.

Glimpsing the ghostly spectacle more often might even indicate poor ocean health. “The bacteria we suspect is causing milky seas is a known pest species that can kill off fish,” Hudson says.

The footage was taken during a survey of Timor-Leste’s deep sea environment, a South-East Asian nation that takes up half the ...

the Southern Ocean. You remember the National Geographic Survey, don't you? They're the ones who made official President Trump's decision to rename another body of water and it hit rather close to ...