If you’ve ever seen a picture or video of sea otters floating on their backs, holding hands as they snooze, you’ve probably ...

It’s an apt metaphor, because the weed forms a kind of canopy at the ocean surface. Sargassum brings to my mind a floating reef or even a marine grassland—a Serengeti of the sea. Its tangled ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

A consortium based in South West England, led by Morek Engineering, has unveiled its design concept for a new vessel class ...

The world is full of beautiful lakes, but very few of them can be described as “floating on an ocean.” Nonetheless, a spot ...

Your job is to test if a small animal could indeed float on a raft of natural materials across the ocean. Here’s what you’ll need ... that an iguana could sail across the sea on a raft of vegetation ...

A record amount of sargassum seaweed is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida. Sargassum is a yellowish-brown floating macroalgae that crabs, sea turtles, shrimp and other marine ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

Alongside the floating sea anemones, fresh sargassum seaweed has ... shrimp and crabs in the open ocean. I always enjoy shaking it out to see what critters fall out, including shrimp, crabs ...