Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

But what would happen if all marine life—from the tiniest plankton to the largest whales—disappeared? A recent study delves into this extreme scenario to uncover the crucial role that ocean ...

That gaze is indicative of domoic acid poisoning, a neurotoxin produced by an algae called Pseudo-nitzschia, which attacks the nervous systems of marine life. In the last few months, scientists ...

A government-funded study found that more than 90 percent of hermit crabs on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) wore mollusk shells, not plastic debris, in a positive sign for the health of the ...

But farther out in the Pacific, life in the vast Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument faces a very different future. The Trump administration has moved to reopen 500,000 square miles ...

An artificial reef programme aims to restore marine life in Tauranga Harbour. Tauranga Harbour saw a massive decline in biodiversity after Cyclone Gabrielle, and a colossal build-up of sediment ...

CHANNEL ISLANDS, Calif. (AP) — Strands of kelp glow in the dim morning light off California’s Channel Islands as fish and sea lions weave through the golden fronds. It’s a scene of ...

There were so many bodies that marine biologists ran out of refrigerator space at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Fisheries Science Center and turned to SeaWorld ...