Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world’s oceans. By ...

A pilot spotted “white specks” in an Alaska bay and realized it was a pod of sea creatures, Alaska officials said. The pod of beluga whales was seen off the coast of Lake Clark National Park and ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Despite making up more than 70% of the Earth's surface, seas and oceans are largely unknown to science. It is estimated that we do not know even half of what happens in the aquatic ...

For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...

The reptiles, an endangered species, were incapacitated when the water temperature plummeted after a rare winter storm hit ...

The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

The findings give biologists a better idea of how young turtles use the Gulf of Mexico, a critical region for four species of endangered sea turtles. “It’s not that the sea turtles were ever ...

Scientists have used satellite trackers to shed light on the “lost years” of young sea turtles, a period previously shrouded ...