By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.

No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

CHINA has unveiled plans for a deep-sea mega-lab that will be hidden 6,500ft down in the bitterly contested South China Sea. The underwater base will study “cold seep” ecosystems ...

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean's twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new ...

Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

Deakin University researchers have joined scientists from SeaGen Aquaculture and Gippsland-based biotech company Offshore Biotechnologies to undertake ...

Halifax's first research aquarium plans to open this fall, and is looking for funding from the municipality to help with the ...

It was a once-in-human-existence moment. Elusive ocean predator seen for first time by human beings: 'I saw something black ...

Adaptation can also involve changing how and where people live, prohibiting them from rebuilding in areas that repeatedly ...