Oceans

A manatee was found dead near a drainage area in South Carolina this week, an unusual occurrence as these sea creatures typically migrate south in the search for warmer water during the winter.

A Hawaiian monk seal was spotted over the summer with an eel hanging out of its nose, a photo shared by the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program on Monday shows.

A warning has been sent out to parents after a young girl unknowingly took home a deadly marine animal that was hiding in a shell on a Western Australian beach.

Marine biologists have identified a mysterious looking sea creature as a New Zealand rough skate. A mom and her daughter found it on a beach in the country and took to social media to figure out what it was.

There was a hum that nobody could hear. It was a seismic event, one that originated off the coast of Mayotte on Nov. 11, a tiny island in the waters between Madagascar and Mozambique.

Dozens of people offered suggestions — from a flying squirrel fish to a saw shark.

Since September, 13 dead California sea lions have been reported dead in the waters off Puget Sound near Seattle Wash., including six with gunshot wounds and another discovered Tuesday with its head cut off, according to conservation groups.

Using a camera to explore the ocean floor — roughly 820 to 1,200 feet below the surface — off the coast of Puerto Rico, scientists got a rare opportunity to observe something they hardly see: a live shark embryo.

Park officials were shocked to discover 13 pounds of plastic waste inside the stomach of a dead whale that recently washed ashore in Indonesia.

A major new climate study in the journal Nature got worldwide media coverage for finding that the oceans warmed dramatically faster than previously thought — but now the researchers have retracted that conclusion after a man in the United Kingdom blogged about flaws he discovered in the paper.