You may think that since sharks have noses, they use them for breathing. However, unlike mammals, they use them only to smell ...

Much remains unknown about the breeding habits of the finless porpoise. We will shed light on this elusive marine mammal.

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

Preparing for your first scuba diving tour stirs a mix of calm nerves and quiet excitement. You imagine what it will be like ...

Many animals that live in water need to come up to the surface to breathe, but they can still spend impressive lengths of ...

Tapirs are often called “living fossils” because they have changed very little since the Eocene Epoch, which was between 56 ...

We're underwater and we're doing breath-holds of 6 to 61/2 minutes. So I was doing all my training with the other stuff (on-set). It was very taxing stuff." ...

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions ...

Spiders can hold their breath underwater for days Spiders don't have gills, so they can't get oxygen from water like fish do. But they have evolved clever strategies for staying alive if they stay in ...

This adaptation has been key in the evolution of marine mammals and potentially other breath-hold diving animals (like birds and reptiles) allowing them to spend most of their lives without any ...

For the real participants, the events in "Last Breath" were surely life-changing. (One has become a motivational speaker.) For the rest of us, this underwater adventure will feel pretty underwhelming.