In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

The blobfish is specially adapted to life in the deep ocean, but it looks like a shapeless ... the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region ...

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji. Researchers have long ...

A bright yellow bloom fills a field south of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse in San Mateo County as Año Nuevo Island is visible, ...

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans.

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

The island is in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific Ocean, therefore it cannot be part of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Thus, the above social media posts have miscaptioned the photo. In a ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge numbers of strange and rare animals almost entirely unknown to science.