A new study has found that spinner dolphin calves make up only 9% of the spinner dolphin population off Hawaiʻi Island, which ...
New Zealand’s well-documented fossil and living marine fauna allows scientists to explore drivers of extinction risk that are ...
A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...
Unexpectedly low calf numbers within the spinner dolphin population off Hawaiʻi Island were revealed in a study led by ...
Citizen science is booming and could play a much greater role in tackling climate change, reef health, biodiversity and public health challenges by involving members of the public throughout the ...
The holobiont concept — the recognition of animals and their associated microbial communities as integrated functional and evolutionary units — has reshaped ...
Mercer Brugler, chair of USC Beaufort’s Department of Natural Sciences and a marine biology professor, now has a black coral ...
Beneath the ocean’s surface, an unseen system works without pause. Tiny microbes drift through the water, breaking down ...
Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea are spending so much time behind fishing trawlers that the pattern now looks less ...
A jellyfish no wider than a dime can do something human skin cannot. When its surface is torn, the wound can close in minutes ...
Citizen science turns morning walks along Washington’s coastline into environmental surveys, a camping trip with friends into an in-depth exploration of fauna, and a swim in the ocean into a scavenger ...
DEEP’s Vanguard is now installed on the seafloor at Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, becoming ...