An environmental group has sued the Trump administration over its failure to grant Endangered Species Act protections to ...

A remarkable new species of deep-sea ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean off ...

Species across the planet are on the move. Climate change has already caused more than 12,000 species to shift their homes across land, freshwater and the sea. They move to escape unfavorable ...

A small team of ichthyologists at the California Academy of Sciences has discovered a new species of damselfish living off the shores of the Maldives. In their paper published in the journal ZooKeys, ...

INCOIS has warned that the ongoing El Nino could reduce sardine and mackerel catches across the North Indian Ocean. The ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: rods for ...

"The foundation of all life is in the ocean," famously said French pioneering oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. In 1997, Cousteau passed away at the age of 87. Nearly 30 years later, we're still just ...

Offshore wind turbines were built to power homes, but their steel foundations are quietly becoming something marine ...

Mesopelagic fish are integral to ocean food webs and play an important role in carbon transport through their vertical migration behavior. Ocean deoxygenation caused by anthropogenic warming is ...

Tuna, opah, and billfishes such as marlins and swordfish are among the 0.1% of fish species that are warm-blooded. Evidence by an international team of researchers led by UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

Scientists described numerous new species this past year, from the world’s smallest otter in India to a fanged hedgehog from Southeast Asia, tree-dwelling frogs in Madagascar, and a new family of ...