It’s hard to study animals at this depth in the cold, since they spend a lot of time in a habitat “on the continental shelf to the deep sea,” says Matthew Davis, a professor of biological ...

Mayflies, also known as Canadian sailors, and midges, which are sometimes mistaken for mosquitoes, can form annoying swarms.

If someone says “You’re glowing!” you may be in love. Or, more likely, you’re a marine animal. It’s a separate process from biofluorescence, in which blue light hits the surface of an ...

My first full-time job in my field was working as a wildlife biologist for the Bureau of Land Management in Shoshone, Idaho.