Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Quick, think of every place you’ve seen a spider. A forest ...

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in shallow rivers ...

A Florida scientist who goes by Dr. Deep Sea online has just broken the record for the longest time living underwater, according to his Instagram post. Dr. Deep Sea, or Joe Dituri, is a US Navy ...

Swipe Down for Full Video Story Humans are perfectly adapted for life on land, but what if evolution had pushed us back into ...

Visitors to the La Jolla/Riford Library over the next 2½ months can be transported into the wonders of the ocean with the return of an annual exhibit. “Life in the Ocean,” now in its fifth year, ...

Seven months after being given over to the sea, two old MARTA railcars are adapting well to underwater life. Instead of being sold for scrap, the railcars were dismantled and added to an artificial ...

Many people think of the ocean as a quiet and serene place: Take a dip underwater and the cacophony of the world melts away. But the ocean is quite noisy, full of whale songs and echolocation, which ...