A rare species of sea snail known as janthina was found at a SoCal beach. These creatures are known for their vibrant violent shells and the bubble rafts they create to stay afloat.

Cape Perpetua towers above the town, offering the highest viewpoint accessible by car on the Oregon coast. From the top, you can see 70 miles of coastline on clear days. The visitor center has ...

Our world is a most unusual place. There is such an enormous range of sounds, sights, smells, and types of things we observe ...

Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes “that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones,” researchers said in a July 10 study published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. They are ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we find out how abandoned fishing gear in the oceans is getting turned into ...

Scientists May Have Found the Blueprint of the Human Body at the Bottom of the Ocean We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but ...

So while the sea anemone's genome, gene repertoire, and gene regulation on the DNA level is surprisingly similar to vertebrates, its post-transcriptional regulation is undeniably plant-like -- and ...

Though scientists don’t yet know how clownfish shrink, one idea is that they could be reabsorbing their own bone matter. It’s possible the smaller stature may help the clownfish save energy ...

Underwater camera captures elusive tentacled creature 3 miles below ocean surface Little is known about Iosactis vagabunda, an anemone with 24 tentacles.

A wildfire raging in Ocean County reached 15,000 acres on Wednesday night, prompting concerns for residents, homes, wildlife — and a closed power plant in Lacey Township. Oyster Creek, the ...

Ocean City Environmental Commission member Catherine Cipolla speaks to children from Discovery World preschool about plans to plant a butterfly garden Wednesday morning at the Bayside Center.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.