European coastal areas are under increasing pressure. Researchers are investigating ways to reverse this trend and help ...

It was breakfast time at Nairobi’s Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and on our first full day in Kenya, my family and I were ...

Dive beneath the waves of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, where sea otters play, humpback whales migrate, and ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science ...

Sharks have a branding problem. For many people, the word alone conjures images of horror: sleek predators stalking through ...

Did you know that coral reefs are vital to the survival of our ecosystem? And did you also know that reefs can be found as deep as 8000 meters in the ocean? As deep as they are, those reefs are still ...

We tend to think of animals as short-lived, especially when we compare their lifespans to human lifespans. But some species ...

In the shallow waters off Johor Bahru’s rapidly urbanizing shoreline in Peninsular Malaysia, a busy assemblage of crabs, marine worms and mollusks are a sign of recovery. Just over a decade ago, the ...

Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have uncovered an array of remarkable finds off the coast of Argentina, including ...

Scientists have documented elephants breaking chains to flee inland and hibernating snakes emerging in winter before major earthquakes, yet most of us dismiss our pets' strange behavior as mere quirks ...

Corals may look still, but they follow a daily sleep cycle. New research shows why corals rest at night while their microbes ...