Today, oceans host a large variety of fast, resilient marine predators, including tunas, mackerels and various other fish ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

Thalassotitan was one of the largest and most fearsome mosasaurs of the Late Cretaceous, reaching lengths of up to 10 meters ...

Humans have more in common with these elite ocean predators than often thought. A little Miles Davis anyone? Sharks are among ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...

Most predators slow down when ocean temperatures shift. Great hammerhead sharks don't—not significantly anyway. These ocean predators are masters of the "thermal hustle," maintaining peak hunting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch of the giant octopus. (CREDIT: Yohei Utsuki, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University) A jaw tip ...

Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, yet globally the microbes number in ...

Sawfish — with their long, toothed snouts that resemble saw blades — are being caught as bycatch in Australia’s largest tropical prawn fishery. In the warm, shallow azure waters off northern Australia ...

Ocean acidification, driven by rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, alters the chemical composition of seawater and has profound consequences for predator and prey interactions in marine ecosystems.

A jaw tip worn down by nearly a tenth does not sound like much until you picture what it means. Chipping, cracking, scratches and polish do not appear on their own. Something was hitting back. That is ...