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Shawn Garner watches over 18 tanks of hundreds of tiny seahorses bobbing among the artificial sea grasses and plastic zip ties provided to give their tails a hitching post. “It’s the coolest animal in the world,” he said, showing them off with a touch of both pride and awe. “It has a head like a horse, a tail like a monkey and a pouch like a kangaroo.”

Diving to the deepest part of the ocean, filmmaker James Cameron says the last frontier on Earth looks an awful lot like another planet: desolate and foreboding....

Director James Cameron has begun his solo journey to explore a place only two men have gone before - to the Earth's deepest point.

James Cameron plans to ride a vertical torpedo into the planet’s deepest recess, the Challenger Deep in the western Pacific, nearly seven miles down.

Scientists have discovered how two marine creatures are able to rapidly "switch" their colours - from transparent to reddish brown. The species, an octopus and a squid, use their adaptable camouflage to cope with changing light conditions in the deep ocean. The creatures' skins respond light that deep-sea predators produce to illuminate their prey.

New evidence supports the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth' s oceans, which scientists believe formed about 8 million years after the planet itself.

Dolphins and sea lions that have died along the Southern California coast in recent weeks may be victims of a deadly neurotoxin produced by a ...

A new report records 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life.

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet for an ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's Enceladus, suggesting it could join the exclusive club of watery moons in our solar system.

Robotic submarine undergoes the final preparations before its dive to the deepest-known part of the oceans.