Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes.

Competitive swimmers know that swimming underwater causes less drag resistance than swimming at the surface. Splashing around ...

Resurrecting extinct cephalopods with biomimetic robots to explore hydrodynamic stability, maneuverability, and physical constraints on life habits. Scientific Reports , 2022; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038 ...

The US Navy kept its Marine Mammal Program a secret until the 1990s, but it’s now more transparent. The program trains Pacific bottlenose dolphins, which have natural biosonar that is better ...

Animal evolution: In the Feb. 23 Section A, an article about the tendency of animals to get bigger over time said that scientists studied the evolution of marine mammals over a span of nearly 550 ...

The ocean feels infinite. If you were to start swimming from shore, it’s easy to believe—fitness and oxygen aside—that you could continue forever. That’s a much different experience from ...

A new database detailing the maximum body size of marine life will shed light on species at risk from climate change and habitat degradation, paving the way for targeted protection.

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species ...