Sandy beaches account for approximately a third of the world's ice-free coastlines. These sandy shorelines are responsible ...

A new Electronic Dolphin robot can clean up oil spills using a sea urchin-inspired filter that pulls in oil while pushing water away.

RMIT University engineers in Australia have built a remote-controlled minibot that hoovers up oil spills using an innovative ...

Once abundant in California, the white abalone had all but vanished. Now, thanks to an innovative breeding program, it’s staged a remarkable comeback ...

Not all animals have brains, and all of them happen to be sea creatures. From the man-o-war to the sea cucumber, here are 12 ...

Important marine research is underway in Apollo Beach as researchers work to better understand the relationship between coral ...

They move like living question marks, anchoring themselves with delicate tails while their eyes swivel independently to scan the water around them. They ...

The Vancouver Aquarium says its 10 sea otters have started celebrating the 2026 FIFA World Cup early, with just 100 days to ...

Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Off the Tutukākā coast of ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...

Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and the humble sea urchin is the latest contributor. Scientists have designed a new class ...

Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert is in the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA, and the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, ...