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.
October 20, 2015 Ocean glow stick: Sea worm emits strange blue glow One common sea worm has a rather uncommon trick: Chaeteopterus variopedatus also known as the parchment tube worm for the paper-like tubes it builds for itself and lives within throughout its life secretes a bioluminescent mucus that makes it glow blue.
October 20, 2015 Kraken rises: New fossil evidence of 'sea monster' Did a giant kraken troll the Triassic seas, crushing ichthyosaurs and arranging their bones into pleasing patterns?
October 20, 2015 Japan’s 'toxic' monster creeping towards US An enormous debris field is creeping toward the U.S. in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that shook Japan in 2011, killing nearly 16,000 people and launching 1.5 million tons of floating objects into the sea.
October 20, 2015 Hey Flipper! Dolphins call each other by name Dolphins call to each other using distinctive whistles that serve as names, new research suggests
October 20, 2015 Death of hundreds of baby right whales continues to puzzle scientists Scientists still don't know why hundreds of baby southern right whales are turning up dead around Patagonia, a decade after observers first saw signs of the worst die-off on record for the species.