Ocean News

US President Barack Obama later today will announce his intent to make a broad swath of the central Pacific Ocean off limits to fishing, energy...
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Nature is the perfect engineer. Just like it designed snakes so that they don't poison themselves with their own venom, it created octopuses such...
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Crustaceans may be able to experience some emotions, a study published in the journal Science suggests. Researchers in France have found that...
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Scientists in Australia tagged a healthy 2.7m great white shark as part of program to track these animals. Four months later they found the tracking...
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Experts are warning that the new Arctic shipping routes that have opened up as ice-ways continue to melt create new opportunities for invasive marine...
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Looking like something from the deep, this gooseneck barnacle encrusted boat has journeyed from the tsunami battered shores of Japan to the coast of...
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A new study has demonstrated that some corals are able to acclimatize rapidly to rising sea temperatures, acquiring the same level of heat tolerance...
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Fossils found in Greenland in 2009 show that a strange, shrimp-like species which lived 520 million years in the Cambrian seas went from being an...
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Marine specialists in Auckland, New Zealand are fighting the spread of the rapidly-multiplying Mediterranean fanworm with a new weapon — a prototype...
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A new burrowing robot for anchoring miniature submarines has been developed - inspired by the humble razor clam. "RoboClam" could be used to lay...
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