The ‘David Packard’ is named for the Silicon Valley pioneer who donated more than $1 billion to ocean research.

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...

Beneath the sparkling blue waves of the Pacific lies a hidden world teeming with biodiversity, wonder, and weirdness. At Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, visitors ...

Swimming in Florida's waters? Be mindful and avoid this often unseen animal, which can cause pain if you accidentally come into contact with it.

Rugged red mountains tower over the aquamarine waters off Eilat in southern Israel. A group of divers plunges beneath the waves on a warm winter morning, bound for a crag encrusted with coral known as ...

Just under the surface of the Pacific Ocean in the Solomon Islands is an active underwater volcano that's inexplicably ...

The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) has issued stamps featuring different species of jellyfish found in the ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

Thousands of electric blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures washed up on Central Coast beaches this week. Known by the nickname ...

Morro Bay beachgoers have reported seeing thousands of sea creatures resembling jellyfish wash up along the shoreline ...

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