Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have ...

Sea dragons are some of the most ornately camouflaged creatures on the planet. Adorned with gossamer, leaf-shaped appendages over their entire bodies, they are perfectly outfitted to blend in with ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National ... sea lions. The scene could have looked and sounded the same when Charles Darwin sailed here almost two centuries ago. These creatures ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... whether we’re dooming these animals. But after months of reporting on sea turtles in several countries, I ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Females slip into the sea to hunt and return to their young with the day's catch—identifying their own offspring by touch and scent. These animals are social and also gather at various times ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of sunlight on marine animals that must spend half their lives or more out of the sea. The rocks and pools here ...

In Japan, Steller's sea eagles feast on cod. In addition to fish, they eat crabs, shellfish, squid, small animals, ducks, gulls, and carrion. Steller's sea eagles do not occur in large numbers ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National ... Geographic magazine. On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the ... in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Females likely migrated hundreds of miles to lay eggs on sandy beaches, much like sea turtles do today ... turtles feed on slow-moving marine creatures such as jellyfish and shellfish as well ...