The Mononoke tilefish, Branchiostegus sanae, sports striking facial markings reminiscent of San’s tribal paint, symbolizing a call for marine conservation.

A critically endangered species of shark could be forced to adapt to new habitats—or face extinction—as a result of changes ...

The critically endangered whitefin swellshark, a little-known deep-sea species, faces a grim future as climate change ...

Using visual cues, including colors on wetsuits, seabream in the Mediterranean learned to identify researchers that would ...

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

Scientists in China have conducted a year-long study on six "aquavoltaics" farms hosting sea cucumber aquacultures under the ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

The animal kingdom is home to some truly slow-moving creatures that take life at a leisurely pace. The slowest animal in the ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...