Indian Ocean

The annual crab migration takes place on Christmas Island—an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said American military presence is undermining, rather than providing, regional security.

The French tourist was swimming at Amitie, in Praslin, the archipelago's second biggest island.

The man went missing after a swim in the Hermitage Lagoon, off Saint-Gilles, in the Indian Ocean French overseas territory.

Galante spoke to Newsweek about encountering leopards, elephants and accidentally netting a crocodile in his search for the critically endangered Pondicherry

Scientists believe there are more pieces of plastic in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014 is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviation.

Tomy was caught in a storm on Friday that damaged his boat and left him injured and immobilized.

The two wrecks lie between 2.2 and 2.4 miles below the Indian Ocean.

Two wrecks discovered in 2015 have been identified as coal-trading ships, rather than the plane that went missing in 2014 with 239 passengers.

Dutch and Australian experts are excavating the bodies of victims in the worst act of mass murder in present-day Australian territory.

This giant crab was observed for the first time hunting and killing a seabird.

A series of tests have shown the artifact to be an astrolabe, recovered from the Esmeralda in the Indian Ocean.

The Emirati firm believes the scheme could also affect the dry climate of the Gulf and attract tourists.

The continent likely broke off from a supercontinent hundreds of millions of years ago.

The information gleaned should provide unprecedented insight into the habitats of valuable species.

The piece of wing was found in May and was successfully identified by investigators, officials say.

More than a year into the search, wreckage from a ship is discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

The Boeing 777 aircraft disappeared on March 8 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew shortly after taking off.

"At least once a month, I have nightmares of waves submerging me."