A rare and surprising visitor made its presence known off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on March 13, 2025—a killer ...

Two orcas, Wikie and Keijo, and 12 dolphins are stuck in a shuttered French Riviera marine park after Spanish authorities ...

Mystic Aquarium released 22 sea turtles back into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, April 9, according to a release.

The snook was the 681st fish caught by the Tampa Bay Surveillance Project, a sweeping research initiative that aims to study ...

A new aquatic creature is joining Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach ahead of the busy tourist season. The Dangerous Reef exhibit at the aquarium is now home to ...

The blobfish, described as the world's ugliest animal, has been voted fish of the year in New Zealand. The creature, which grows to about 12 inches (30cm) long, is known affectionately as Mr ...

Unlike ichthyosaurs and marine crocodile relatives, which dominate the fossil record of the formation, plesiosaurs are comparatively rare. Plesiosaur on land. One of Heinrich Harder's murals for the ...

After nearly 30,000 respondents took part in a one-day online poll, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has announced the name of its newest sea otter pup: Opal. The aquarium plans to have Opal make her ...

A five-year closing is over for the Atlantic City Aquarium. It was an unexpectedly long hiatus that the city used to perform extensive interior renovations and then a previously unplanned upgrade ...

An aquarium in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, which was severely damaged by a powerful earthquake that devastated the region last year, has fully reopened. Participants in a ceremony held at ...

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Global sea levels rose faster than expected last year, largely due to warming ocean temperatures, a new NASA analysis found. As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute ...