Archaeologists have uncovered almost two hundred stone artifacts, including projectile points and flake tools, and bone fragments from large mammals at...
A team of marine biologists with the Nautilus Expedition succeeded in filming Asperoteuthis mangoldae, a recently discovered deep-sea squid species, at...
From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, a remote constellation of atolls in the Pacific Ocean that was then a U.S....
The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered. It ranges from...
A team of marine biologists from the University of Washington has found communities of arsenic-breathing microbes in the oxygen-deficient zones of the...
A meteor seen over the South Pacific, off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, in 2014 likely came from interstellar space, according to new research...
A new species of ancient whale ancestor has been identified from a fossilized skeleton found in Peru.
This illustration shows an artistic reconstruction...
An international team of marine biologists has discovered a new species of the seahorse genus Hippocampus in the waters off southeast Japan.
Hippocampus...
A new species of large Pacific octopus has been discovered in the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska.
The frilled giant Pacific octopus. Image credit:...
A new species of seahorse has been discovered in the northern Pacific Ocean, near Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
Coloration of fresh specimens: Hippocampus...
A group of marine biologists that used motion-sensing tags to track the movements of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) off the California coast discovered...
In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of U.S. researchers examined the diets of three different dolphin species (the common bottlenose...
Culture was once thought to be what distinguishes humans from other animals. However, research by a University of St Andrews-led team of scientists studying...
A large deep-water fish that was previously identified in the Southeastern Pacific has recently been found around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast...
A strange sound in the Mariana Trench notable for its complexity likely represents the discovery of a new minke whale call, says a team of marine researchers...
Nan Madol, an ancient administrative and the former capital of the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, was the earliest among the Pacific islands to be ruled...
