Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

The fish were found in “shallow coral and rocky ... tropical single-spined scorpionfish have been found at three islands in the South Pacific Ocean: Australia’s Lord Howe Island, French ...

By Edward Carver Fishing vessels can often work long periods at sea without coming to port, thanks to the practice of ...

Also known as the cow shark, the sixgill is considered rare amongst oceanologists. Which meant that when deep sea scientists ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich ... Each one probably started as a shard of hard surface -- a shark tooth or a fish ear bone -- that settled on the ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

Tuna hauls around the islands of Hachijojima and Miyakejima are on the rise, as catch quotas have been expanded thanks to the ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050 ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the ... Colder temperatures can also “inhibit coral growth rates” and “fish may experience shifts in their ...

Rather than making its own light, a shallow-water marine fish gets all the tools that it needs for bioluminescence production from eating tiny, glowing crustaceans. The discovery of ancient clades of ...

That curious question led scientists to connect oceanographic conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean to fish abundance in its deep twilight zone by measuring how successfully elephant seals ...