Image: Peter Shearer/National Institute of Water a...  ...ith weird and scary creatures that troll the deep ocean . Dark Roasted Blend has a fantastic post (as usua...

If you look hard enough, even the most outlandish legends have a grain of truth somewhere. Reports from antiquity of sea monsters may be fantastic, but they describe what someone at least thought they saw at one time. Co...

The Census of Marine Life is a series of project...  ...of projects to find out exactly what lives in our oceans . The latest report is an inventory of microscopic...

In this Discovery video, which has hit the tubes recently, you'll see what is called an oarfish.  Normally fish that look like this don't rise anywhere near the surface of the sea.  They say in the video that this crit...

Despite the many opportunities for research in...  ...espite the many opportunities for research in the oceans , the surfaces of those seas tend to get rough.  ...  ...50 foot long contraption is towed out to the open ocean , and flipped 90° to the vertical position to bec...

(YouTube Link) In the movie Avatar, there is a plant that disappears into the ground the instant it's touched.  The good news for those afflicted with Pandora Depression it that we have a similar plant organism, r...

[caption id="attachment_28049" align="aligncenter" width="468" caption="nudibranch photos from Raymond's Flickr"][/caption] WebEcoist rocks with an informative piece on a species commonly confused with a sea slug,...

There's a new giant crack in the desert of Ethiopi...  ...ntists think that it will eventually create a new ocean :A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will lik...  ...n the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.The crack, 20...  ...eologists believed then that...

Marine biologist and blogger "WhySharksMatter...  ...s of sharks, this post will be interesting to the ocean lover in all of us."Human beings are better off w...

Stop and think about this for a second: how does a...  ...second: how does a zooplankton eat in such a vast ocean ? Turns out, it's not a trivial task: copepods, a...