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Juvenile spiny chromis in Indonesia.
science

Motorboat Noise Turns Fish Into Deadbeat Dads

Shhhhhhh!
Kelsey Kennedy June 7, 2017
So many craters!
geology

Found: Giant Mounds and Craters Across the Arctic Seafloor

Aka methane burps.
Sarah Laskow June 2, 2017
Visitors at the Kuroshio Sea main tank
Motobu, Japan

Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.
The new sponge is about 6.5 feet long and looks nothing like a typical sponge.
science

Meet the Ocean's Newest Carnivorous Sponge

In the deep sea, sometimes its takes rows of tiny glass spikes to survive.
Kelsey Kennedy May 30, 2017
Florida

Alligator Reef Lighthouse

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.
news

Found: Three Dozen Giant, Mysterious Disks of Compressed Trash

They smelled.
Sarah Laskow May 17, 2017
Clearfin lionfish.
science

The First Step to Getting Rid of Invasive Lionfish? Listen Closely ...

Scientists have recorded the "roar" of the unwanted reef predators.
Samir S. Patel May 15, 2017
Permanently Closed
A model of a three-masted ship.
Baltimore, Maryland

Fell's Point Maritime Museum

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.
islands

Found: A Giant Decomposing Sea Creature

It’s probably a whale?
Sarah Laskow May 12, 2017
Rocks a few miles from Kick 'Em Jenny
Grenada

Kick 'Em Jenny

A violent name for a violent volcano.
Anemones make great accessories.
science

Watch Decorator Crabs Get Decked Out in Camouflage

When the perfect accessory is a matter of life and death.
Kelsey Kennedy May 11, 2017
A great white shark on the western cape of South Africa.
murder

Found: Three Dead Great White Sharks, Missing Their Livers

One was also missing its heart.
Sarah Laskow May 11, 2017
The wind creates a scaly formation.
wind

Found: Rare, Bizarre ‘Dragon-Skin Ice’

It's "evidence of a darker chaos," one scientist says.
Sarah Laskow May 8, 2017
Joan Blaeu, Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus
maps

Found: A Rare, 17th-Century Map of Australia

Created around 1659 by a Dutch cartographer, it's the first map to show Tasmania.
Sarah Laskow May 4, 2017
Sargasso
North Atlantic Ocean

Sargasso Sea

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.
The house on Fiskergade 82, where Drakenberg lived.
Aarhus, Denmark

Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg's Last Home

The final home of the legendary Danish sailor said to have lived to be 146 years old.
Vertebrae from a whale, shown about seven months after its carcass was placed at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. By this time, the bones were covered with a dense carpet of red Osedax ("bone devouring") worms.
science

Why Scientists Drag Dead Whales to the Bottom of the Sea

A fallen whale can fuel new life on the ocean floor.
Kevin Litman-Navarro April 21, 2017
The leaning lighthouse of Kiipsaare, off the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.
Saaremaa, Estonia

Kiipsaare Lighthouse

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.