Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The ...

Types of large sea slugs called the California sea hare and black sea hare can be found off the coast and in tide pools ...

The Collection includes extensive holdings from deep-sea environments ... SIO-BIC staff and collaborators discover invertebrate species that are entirely new to science. The scientist who first ...

LEGOLAND Florida Resort officially announces that its new SEA LIFE Florida will open to the public at the beginning of June.

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

For over a century, the colossal squid has been one of the deep sea’s most slippery enigmas. Known mostly through bits and pieces found in whale bellies and a handful of dying adults spotted by ...

The majority of animal species on our planet are ... Crabs are crustaceans, like shrimp and lobsters, which are invertebrates that live in the sea. Some crustaceans such as woodlice live on ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.

The two most prominent types of plankton in the ocean are zooplankton, which are tiny animal organisms, and phytoplankton, which are plantlike. (Other forms of plankton include bacterial and fungal.