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Marine Life

Scientist Uses Whale Songs to Map Sea Floor

Recordings of fin whale songs let a scientist measure the thickness and compactness of layers of Earth’s crust up to about 10,000 feet below the seafloor.

New Australian Marine Center Will Be Shaped Like Breaching Whale

The biomimetic design houses an underwater glass wall so visitors and scientists can see marine creatures in their natural habitat.

Accidental Discovery Under Antarctic Ice Challenges What We Know About Cold Water Life

Researchers boring into an Antarctic ice shelf found a boulder coated in life like sponges, the first of its kind ever recorded, in an environment where larger life was thought to not exist.

Four Critical Marine Habitats You Should Care About

These four critical marine habitats—sea grass, sand, sargassum, mangroves—nurture ocean life as we know it.

First US Whale Heritage Site Announced as California’s Dana Point

The Whale Heritage Site title signifies it as an area has cultural ties and educational, sustainable interactions with both whales and dolphins.

The Race is On to Save Thousands of Endangered Sea Turtles from Texas Cold Snap

More than 4,000 cold stunned sea turtles have been pulled from the Texas waters, and power outages are limiting the ability to aid the injured.

Top Eight Citizen-Science Dives in the Florida Keys

Eight ways to restore the coral reefs in the Florida Keys from coral restoration dives to cleanup dives and fish surveys.

Shark and Rays are Disappearing Faster than Expected, New Study Finds

Some shark populations have decreased by 70 percent. The oceanic whitetip shark experienced the greatest decline, losing 98 percent of their population in just 60 years.

WATCH: Scuba Divers Rescue Shark Tied to Ocean Floor by Fishing Line

Two divers freed a shark snared by a fishing hook to the seafloor off the coast of Australia.