Here we go again. Another shadowy image of something big swimming off the coast of the UK, another round of misguided man-eating shark speculation. When it comes to sharks, everyone thinks they are an expert. Unfortunately, although not unexpectedly, this results in a great deal of misinformation.

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. The search for the plane carrying 239 people will resume by

Robots that hunt down and exterminate jellyfish: Good or bad idea? Discuss. A 2013 video from robotics designers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology shows three jelly-killer prototypes gliding as a metallic fleet over gently rippling water. An underwater video demonstrates the

The Atlantic and Southern oceans may be covering up global warming by hoarding heat. The finding could explain a puzzling plateau in Earth’s surface temperatures that many scientists have blamed on the Pacific Ocean. Since the turn of the century, global average surface temperatures have remained

Waning winds could give the world’s largest oxygen-starved ocean region a breath of fresh air as the planet warms, researchersreport in the Aug. 8 Science. Scientists previously thought the North Pacific dead zone would grow, not shrink, under climate change. Dead zones naturally form at depths of