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A group of fish loitering around the discharge of the Sydney Desalination Plant.
salt

Fish Flock to the Super-Salty Wastewater of the Sydney Desalination Plant

Sydney's technological solution for drought is having unexpected effects on marine life.
Sabrina Imbler January 2, 2020
A sea lily, spotted off the Northwest Guam Seamount.
fossils

A Sea Lily Fossil in Utah Just Solved an Evolutionary Mystery

“This tears off one branch in the tree of life and rearranges it another way.”
Sabrina Imbler December 16, 2019
An adult Kemp's ridley sea turtle heading to sea.
turtles

The World's Tiniest Sea Turtles Keep Getting Stranded on Cape Cod

Floating devices called "drifters" are helping oceanographers understand why.
Sabrina Imbler December 9, 2019
At Marina Beach in Chennai, visitors waded into the foam.
water

How Frothy Waves of Sea Foam Coated the Coast of Chennai

Don't play in the bubbles.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 5, 2019
museums

How Whopping Whale Skeletons Come to Life at 'Bonehenge'

“Every one of these animals has a story."
Megan Dohm December 5, 2019
The Alligator Reef lighthouse, off the coast of Islamorada in the Florida Keys, is one of the four being given away gratis.
lighthouses

For Sale: A 19th-Century Screw-Pile Lighthouse With a View of Key West

For free: Four more of these derelict, decommissioned structures, courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Karuna Eberl November 22, 2019
Urchins encircle a lone red abalone.
forests

A Minefield of Purple Urchins Devastated Kelp Forests in California

Warm water and "sea star wasting disease" helped urchins take over the coast, a new study finds.
Sabrina Imbler November 8, 2019
A green sea turtle, tangled in a ghost net in 2014.
ghosts

Ghost Nets Haunt the World's Oceans, Hunting Beyond the Grave

Who you gonna call?
Sabrina Imbler October 28, 2019
The spectral ship has a curious, centuries-old history.
ships

The World's Most Famous Ghost Ship Is an Enduring Symbol of Empire

The Flying Dutchman's long afterlife began with a British power trip.
Isaac Schultz October 24, 2019
The researchers studied aerial images of 86 southern right whales off the coast of Argentina.
science

Drone-Piloting Scientists 'Weighed' Whales From 130 Feet in the Air

In Argentina, aerial imagery helps researchers get a close look at southern right whales from a distance.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 2, 2019
A crab crusted in parasites.
disasters

A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland

A nightmare at 6,000 feet.
Sabrina Imbler September 18, 2019
One lobster, two colors.
oceans

Found: A Fantastically Two-Toned Lobster Off the Coast of Maine

A little speckled, a little orange, a little mysterious.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 16, 2019
The team members filled out questionnaires to test decision-making and more.
space exploration

What It's Like to Live on the Sea Floor to Simulate Life in Space

Researchers squeeze into an underwater habitat off Florida to help prepare for missions to the Moon and beyond.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 9, 2019
Only a few inches long, Sloan's viperfish is an apex predator in the twilight zone.
oceans

The Ocean's Eerie Twilight Zone Is in Murky Legal Water

Scientists are trying to keep one of the world’s last great wildernesses intact.
Sabrina Imbler September 5, 2019
The plastic-strewn sediment core was collected partway between Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands off the California coast.
geology

More Than Half a Century of Microplastics Are Buried in Layers of Sediment, Like Synthetic Fossils

The teeny menaces turned up in a core taken from the floor of the Santa Barbara Basin.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 4, 2019
This is pretty much what it was like.
natural history museums

The 'Moby-Dick' Musical Is Swimming With Sea Shanties and Nurdle Ballads

We watched it with a whale anatomist to see if the cetacean science holds water.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 2, 2019
Where did all the big boys go?
squid

The Strange Case of Mexico's Shrinking Jumbo Squid

Too many El Niños have diminished the "diablo rojo."
Sabrina Imbler July 24, 2019
The scaly-foot snail was recently rebranded the "sea pangolin."
endangered animals

The Scaly-Foot Snail Is the First Deep-Sea Species Endangered by Mining

It’s a dubious honor.
Sabrina Imbler July 22, 2019