Contender, the largest male great white shark ever tagged by OCEARCH, surfaced several miles off the Jersey Shore.

Contender, who measures nearly 14 feet long, is among hundreds of marine animals tracked by nonprofit research firm Ocearch.

A man had a close call with an eastern diamondback rattlesnake after the reptile slithered up onto his leg. Video shows him remaining still and attempting to distract the snake to avoid being bitten.

While the animal might have a stronger association with states like Louisiana, Texas has plenty of gators to go around, and ...

Whenever I take my family on a trip to a new state, we always try to visit the local aquarium, and I bet a lot of other families do the same. It’s exciting to see the different types of marine ...

Sounding like a hybrid of Groundhog Day and shark-infested scarefest, The Shallows, Shiver follows a smuggler who gets caught up in a deal that goes sideways out in the Caribbean Sea. The fallout sees ...

Panacea's Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory founder, who's fighting cancer at 83, talks about his remarkable career with sea ...

Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behavior of two species of sea snakes that forage along the seafloor and discovered that one species performs a curious wiggle ...

The species they assessed included iconic examples such as the whale shark, manta ray, and the megamouth shark, and also many lesser known, but just as interesting deep-sea species, such as the pygmy ...