SINGAPORE: In the new year, the Trump administration’s policies towards China and the wider Indo-Pacific region will have a significant impact on the South China Sea dispute. If 2024 was ...

A century and a half ago, Australia was coercing 60,000 South Sea Islanders into cheap labour. Their story is being commemorated at the Queensland Museum in an exhibition called Say Our Name.

For some people, the very thought of the ocean is a scary one. And even if you haven’t got a phobia of sea animals or thalassophobia, it does get pretty eerie the deeper you think about it.

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deep-sea fish adapted to high-pressure environments, where its gelatinous body thrives. The blobfish has become an unlikely celebrity of the animal kingdom ... Size With a name as evocative ...

A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. The crustacean was snagged by a carnivorous giant green anemone at the Seal Rock State ...

The sea animal feasts on crabs, mussels, small fish and sea urchins. Stinging cells are found on its tentacles, which paralyze its prey. However, it’s safe for humans to touch sea anemones ...

From a sea monster's head being on the ... one of the first known dinosaurs in 1842 when English paleontologist Richard Owen coined the clade name "Dinosauria," which is Greek for "terrible ...

A tourist has been killed and another injured in a shark attack at an Egyptian Red Sea resort, officials have said. The incident happened in deep waters outside a designated swimming area in Marsa ...

Chinese naval and air forces conducted combat readiness patrols near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Sunday, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) said in a statement.

"Uncover ten unexplained sea creatures that were caught on tape. From mysterious deep-sea beings to unusual marine sightings, these recordings reveal the enigmatic life beneath the waves.