Marine Life
Marine life includes an incredible and vibrant array of wild animals that live in the ocean. From tiny phytoplankton to massive blue whales, marine life is a vital source of food, energy and life for the entire planet.
Box Jellyfish: World's Most Venomous Sea Creature
Stinging 'Sea Lice' Invading Atlantic Beaches
Jellyfish Don't Have Brains, But They Still Sleep
The Biggest Crab in the World, Plus 8 Enormous Contenders
Why No Fish Wants a Tongue-eating Parasitic Louse in its Mouth
Pistol Shrimp: The Fastest Gun in the Sea
Giant African Land Snails Invade South Florida Again
The Cone Snail Is a Slow, but Highly Venomous, Predator
The Tiny Blue-ringed Octopus Is the Ocean's Deadliest
The True and Tragic Story of Tilikum, SeaWorld's Captive Orca
10 Deep Sea Creatures That Are (Almost) Too Bizarre to Be Real
How Do Eels Reproduce?
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Is that a dolphin pancreas? Some extremely firm manatee vomit? Nope, it's sea pork!
The biggest land-dwelling arthropod can crack into everything from coconuts to carcasses, but they're also really vulnerable.
The single-celled Mesodinium chamaeleon harnesses algae, which lives inside it, for energy.
By Loraine Fick
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The first-ever deep-sea exploration of West Java seas netted more than 12,000 marine creatures, including some new species of crabs, prawns and lobsters.
By Oisin Curran
The Dumbo octopus is just one of the amazing creatures filmed by the most recent voyage of the E/V Nautilus.
The kindest thing you can say about a sea cucumber's physique is that it looks very much like a large hoagie bun dressed in a lumpy old sweater.
Sea lice aren't actually lice — they're jellyfish — but they're no fun when they get in your bathing suit.
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You can't tell a book by its cover, and you can't tell a squid by its Nosferatu getup.
Sea spiders don't do anything by the book, and researchers have just gotten to the bottom of how they breathe.
By incorporating algae into their bodies, these beautiful sea slugs become one of the few animals with the photosynthetic ability of a plant.
By Amanda Onion
Snails can't pick and choose their shells like hermit crabs can. In fact, eviction means death. So how do those hard shells form over snails?
By Mark Mancini
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Crocodiles are known to eat just about anything. But sharks? A scientific team found evidence that they've chowed down on those predators too.
By Mark Mancini
Don't think you have much in common with a jellyfish? What researchers just discovered may surprise you.
Researchers discover site of 15 gloomy octopus, a species that has previously been known for being reclusive.
The magnificent bryozoan is a colonial organism that lives in warm ponds and lakes usually east of the Mississippi River. So what's it doing in western Canada?
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How giant squid process visual information has long been a mystery, but a new study finds their visual processing is surprisingly uncomplicated.
It's not easy being a starfish larva. Fortunately, the tiny creatures have an efficient way to get food and swim away.
By Alia Hoyt
It sounds crazy, but it's happened before, and it'll probably happen again.
New fossil analysis details a microscopic organism from 540 million years ago that just might be a precursor to every vertebrate on the planet.
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Turns out that strange sound may be minke whales getting vocal in the deep ocean.
Scientists have discovered for the first time that animals pollinate flowers in the ocean.
By Alia Hoyt
A Massachusetts fisherman recently caught a blue lobster, which had us wondering how rare this crustacean really is.
Western Australia Museum is hosting a naming contest for this fascinating new nudibranch species.
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Scientists until recently believed Octopuses & Co. were colorblind. If that were the case, how could the animals create such vivid physical color displays?
