Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that ...

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

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Nestled away in the Indian Ocean, the bank’s seagrass habitats are being decimated by a multinational fleet of fishing ships ...

Gigantactis paresca was recently announced among the top 10 remarkable new marine species of 2024 by the World Register of ...

An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

Understanding hammerhead sharks’ food preferences could aid efforts to protect the critically endangered fish.

Great hammerhead sharks are slow to grow and slow to reproduce, which makes them very vulnerable to overfishing — worldwide ...

The Argentine black and white tegu lizard is a non-native, invasive species distributed throughout Florida through escapes or ...

Data shows that while retention bans are a positive first step, they alone won’t be sufficient to stop the ongoing decline.

A cave diver's paradise, the Bahamas is home to an extensive network of life-sustaining underwater caverns chock-full of ...