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Drone, meet tuna.
oceans

Scientists Tracked Truly Enormous Tuna From Way Up in the Air

Drones helped researchers keep up with fish that are longer than a person and as fast as a car.
Jessica Leigh Hester June 10, 2020
Before Dave Gulko and his group, there were few options for securing prosecutions for crimes against coral reefs.
crime

Inside the Strange World of Coral Reef Crime Scenes

How scientists and law enforcement officers pioneered a new brand of underwater justice.
Christie Wilcox May 11, 2020
Bioluminescent waves crashed onto Venice Beach on May 6, while California was starting to relax shelter-in-place restrictions.
beach

The Dazzling Bioluminescence of Waves in California

As beaches started to reopen, locals came to see the light show from a distance.
Mario Koran May 8, 2020
The abstract ripples could easily be a transportive computer screensaver.
nasa

This Image Was Crowned NASA's Most Spectacular Portrait of Earth

Gaze into the depths of the ocean—from space.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 1, 2020
The shores of Lewes support large populations of horseshoe crabs, especially during summer.
art

Photographs Capture the Ancient Elegance of Horseshoe Crabs

"Nature is there for you, especially when you need it."
Claire Voon April 20, 2020
Tons of sargassum in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, seen here in 2019, present a distinct problem for the tourist industry.
underwater

The Sargasso Sea Is Plenty Wide, and It's Growing

What happens when you have too much of a good thing.
Dan Nosowitz April 14, 2020
Jonathan Green affixes a fin-mounted double satellite tag on the dorsal fin of an adult female whale shark.
science

The Ocean’s Largest Shark Has a Little Something to Say

An online video raised a strange question: Do whale sharks make sounds? And would it matter if they did?
Claudia Geib March 24, 2020
This Brazilian navy ship had a strange insect encounter during nighttime operations.
islands

The Ecological Mystery of a Stink Bug Swarm Far Out to Sea

The chance encounter has led to insights on how insects make it to distant islands.
Erica Tennenhouse March 24, 2020
A volunteer scuba diver gathers seeds from the seabed in Porthdinllaen, Wales.
oceans

The Fight to Resurrect the U.K.'s Underwater Meadows of Seagrass

Seagrass captures carbon and creates marine habitat—so scientists are bringing it back.
Damian Carrington March 18, 2020
An invisible toxin has appeared in shellfish that are part of the fabric of Native Alaskan life.
poison

How Warming Waters and Toxic Clams Threaten Native Alaskans

“If you can’t gather shellfish then you’re going to starve.”
Zoya Teirstein March 9, 2020
Message received.
germany

Found: A Message in a Bottle That Went Clear Around the World and Back

But without a return address.
Matthew Taub March 4, 2020
The house sits on a thin sandbar off the Florida coast.
Stuart, Florida

Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.
The cryptic chameleon, <em>Calumma crypticum</em>, has a past full of mystery.
bones

A Fossilized Skull May Solve the Mystery of a Chameleon Migration

A raft very likely carried chameleons between Madagascar and mainland Africa—but in which direction?
Sabrina Imbler February 18, 2020
So you want to tag a great white, do you?
sharks

The Carolinas' Mysterious Great White Shark Cluster Is Not Mysterious, Not a Cluster

They're just doing what sharks do.
Sabrina Imbler February 14, 2020
Welcome to a thoroughly 21st-century ark.
coral reefs

The Coral Ark That Hopes to Save Florida’s Ailing Reefs

As a mysterious disease sweeps across the region, dry land might be the last best hope for survival.
Sabrina Imbler February 12, 2020
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a fly stuck in a bubbly drink at a picnic?
science

At 'Soda Springs' in the Philippines, the Seafloor Bubbles Like Champagne

The bubbles are mostly carbon dioxide, and gurgle up from the ground in streamers or curtains.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 30, 2020
The gator's red-tipped bones indicate that bone worms have come to feast.
bones

The Curious Case of the Deep-Sea Bone Worms and the Vanishing Underwater Gator

Scientists dropped three alligators to the bottom of the ocean. One of them was never seen again.
Sabrina Imbler January 29, 2020
A <em>Triarthus</em>, preserved with the arm of the shrimp-like predator <em>Anomalocaris</em>.
geology

In Upstate New York, Ancient Arthropods Can Get Turned Into (Fool's) Gold

Pyritized trilobites aren't just flashy—they preserve incredible detail.
Sabrina Imbler January 3, 2020