October 20, 2015 Gelatinous menace? Jellyfish on boom-bust cycle worldwide Though some reports suggest jellyfish are taking over the world’s oceans, long-term records of these gelatinous animals fail to show a global increase in jellyfish blooms likely caused by pollution, warming, coastal development and other human influences.
October 20, 2015 Ancient 'Predator X' sea monster named It's official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say.
October 20, 2015 T.rex-size crocodiles ruled the ancient seas Giant crocodiles were ravenous creatures -- such effective killers that they've been compared to the most famous predator of the Dinosaur Era, T. rex.
October 20, 2015 1, 2, 3 octopuses: Off Seattle coast, volunteer divers conduct an underwater census To check on the health of the giant Pacific octopus population in Puget Sound, an unusual census takes place every year. Volunteer divers, enlisted by the Seattle Aquarium, take to Washington's inland waters to look for their eight-tentacle neighbors.
October 20, 2015 Family saves three baby sharks through C-section Performing an emergency C-section on a shark may not be part of a typical beach outing, but for one family that is exactly what happened.
October 20, 2015 Jumbo squid attack submarine It is like a scene from an old wives' tale about the giant, tentacled kraken dragging shipping vessels to their doom — two Humboldt squid, flashing an angry red, attack a Dual Deep Worker submersible containing two Greenpeace USA divers on an expedition in the Bering Sea. In a Vine video shot by one of the divers, the two large cephalopods, also commonly referred to as “jumbo squid” or “red devils,” rush at the submersible while spewing vision-obscuring clouds of ink.
October 20, 2015 Shark attack: Great white attacks fellow shark When Adam Malski, 33, first set out on a shark-diving expedition near the Neptune Islands, 50 miles at sea off the South Australian coast, he did not expect to witness an epic shark-on-shark duel. While riding on the back of the boat, he captured footage of a large great white shark attacking a significantly smaller white shark.
October 20, 2015 Study links changing winds to warming in Pacific A new study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America over the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, not increases in greenhouse gases related to global warming.
October 20, 2015 Six months later: MH370 search comes up short, but unlocks scientific secrets In the six months of searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, investigators haven’t found a trace of the Boeing 777, but they have made groundbreaking scientific discoveries that could provide new insight into the ocean and the world.
October 20, 2015 New island off Japan keeps growing and growing New images of a new island formed by a volcanic eruption 600 miles south of Tokyo reveal that the 14-acre mass along the western edge of the “Ring of Fire” is here to stay.
