Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.

After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Humans' Closest Invertebrate Ancestors Date Back Much Further Than Thought How We Discovered The Fossils That Show This.

In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking across a hillside in Morocco when something unusual caught her eye. A slab of sedimentary rock was ...

Can dying coral be nursed back to life by healthy coral? A new theory from a pair of marine biologists studying how the tiny ...

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...

Donald Trump promised to usher in a new era of offshore oil drilling. Scientists know all too well how that story ends.