Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

a thing more water balloon than animal. How she could collapse her lungs and dive to depths that would cause you or me to implode. How she had traveled thousands of miles around the Pacific Ocean ...

Sea otters are among the world’s most playful and adorable animals. They are beloved for their charming antics and cuddly ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity ... in the coal mine' scenarios," said Brown. "This is an animal that relies entirely on the ocean for its survival, just ...

Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive ... Today’s largest open ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, emerged eight million years ...