Ancient DNA studies have rewritten the family tree of the "American cheetah," Miracinonyx trumani. Genetic evidence shows this extinct cat was closely related to modern pumas. Fossil analysis suggests ...

A suspected new species of sea star (Porcellanasteridae) rests on the seafloor at a depth of 3,961 meters. Researchers ...

Researchers' sighting of the elusive bigfin squid was the first time the animal has been seen alive in the northeast Pacific ...

These deep-ocean fish usually spend their time around 1,000 metres below the surface, but sometimes they rise to the shallows where humans might be lucky enough to spot them.

Isolation has long demanded resourcefulness in the Azores. Across these far-flung Atlantic islands, generations of farmers, ...

The squid was hovering just off the muddy seafloor at a depth of 3,277 meters (10,751 feet) underwater – a region known as ...

The scientists encountered the seemingly alien-looking creature after plunging a remotely operated vehicle off their boat in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.  The 10-day trip, a combined ...

Deep-sea mining American Samoa: NOAA's Okeanos Explorer is mapping the same federal seafloor that BOEM plans to auction November 19, 2026, in America's first commercial deep-sea mining lease sale. An ...

The new Museum of Exploration brings nearly 140 years of expeditions, photography, artifacts, and scientific discovery under ...

Octopus discovery highlights a rare ghost-white species that, 10 years later, remains officially unnamed because no specimen ...

Now in its third decade documenting the natural world, the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition ...