They look simple—just metal and chain—but anchors are feats of hidden engineering. From ancient stone weights to the colossal anchors of ocean liners, discover how their design grips the seafloor and ...

A new sea anemone species, Paracalliactis tsukisome, builds shell-like homes and share them with hermit crabs - a rare, ...

Scientists reveal the first global count of living carbon in seagrass meadows, showing these ocean plants are powerful ...

The Giant Wheel at Morey’s Piers is gone from the island’s skyline. Temporarily. The wheel’s hub, the anchor that holds the wheel together and is the point around which the wheel rotates, was trucked ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

Once a fabric reserved for emperors, the fabled “sea silk” has been resurrected by Korean scientists who discovered a way to recreate its legendary golden luster using the byssus threads of the pen ...

When the government reopens, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Maritime Center (NMC) will inherit the largest backlog of ...