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Night after night, swimming or kayaking from boat to boat, thieves have quietly ripped off George Town dive operators of thousands of dollars worth of scuba tanks.
From sharks to bats to lions, these researchers are showing their local communities the importance of these often misunderstood species to their ecosytems.
The latest right whale population study, in 2023, placed the number of remaining right whales at 356, plus or minus seven.
This footage is very special as Dana octopus squid are typically only seen in the bellies of whales.
Marine temperatures in the North Atlantic broke records for more than a year. That could contribute to an active summer of storms.
Scientists at the University of Oregon have discovered that colonies of gelatinous sea animals swim through the ocean in giant corkscrew shapes using coordinated jet propulsion, an unusual kind of locomotion that could inspire new designs for efficient underwater vehicles.
Swimming through the crystal clear waters of the Maldives, a nation renowned for its marine life, it could be easy to forget that these delicate ecosystems stand on the frontline of climate change and that seagrass habitats are in crisis globally.
Scientists are one step closer to combating coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish, following a University of Queensland study into the pest's genetics.
Every year, beer breweries generate and discard thousands of tons of surplus yeast. Researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have now come up with a way to repurpose that yeast to absorb lead from contaminated water.
Carl H. Johnson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences, along with a team of Vanderbilt scientists, have succeeded in adjusting the daily biological clock of cyanobacteria, making the blue-green algae a more prolific producer of renewable fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals like insulin.
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Scientists are sounding the alarm about how irresponsible whale shark tourism is endangering the species.
A HOMEOWNER has put her house up for sale after her HOA filed a lawsuit against her. Carol Hanquier was sued due to the location of her pet fish on her property. Hanquier said she placed two fish p…
'Putting a Fitbit' on killer whales could help these endangered and threatened predators.
Chevron said it is set to launch the sale of its remaining UK North Sea oil and gas assets, in a move that would mark the U.S. energy giant's exit from the ageing basin after more than 55 years.
Springtime winds are carrying velella velella, also known as “by-the-wind sailors,” onto West coast Beaches.
The threshold is 84 feet.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a Gram-negative, halophilic bacterium prevalent in marine environments and is the primary cause of acute hepatopancreatic necrosis, also known as early death syndrome, in aquaculture.
An emperor penguin's sex determines the nature of their courtship call—male vocalizations are composed of long, slow bursts with lower frequency tones than the female version. But calls of SeaWorld San Diego male penguin E-79 caught the attention of researchers by defying this binary. Also unusual was this penguin's male companion, E-81. The pair "kept company" and sometimes exhibited ritual courtship displays.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials removed 14 massive, invasive carp from a pond at an Arvada park last week, more than 30 years after the fish were introduced as part of a national study.
Researchers have found that heavily used shipping lanes pass through crucial whale shark feeding grounds, posing a threat to this endangered species.
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