A team of marine biologists from the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of ...

The unsustainable practice of killing fish for ... long after the catch is reeled in. Fishing operations abandon old nets and gear in the water, leaving them to entangle marine life and ...

Since the Cold War thankfully never became a full-scale “hot war,” the GUPPYs ended up never firing any shots in anger. To marine biologists, the guppy (scientific name Poecilia reticulata ...

The doomsday fish got its name because it looks like a mythical sea creature, with a long, ribbon-shaped body that can grow up to 30 feet, according to Ocean Conservancy. After doctoral candidate ...

When they get entangled in a bottom trawling net, turtles can suffer from broken shells and bones from the sheer weight of fish bearing ... after the catch is reeled in. Fishing operations abandon old ...

A new fish species has been hiding in plain sight at markets across Asia. Now, scientists have finally identified it.

Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he’d put on some weight ... know what to call the penguin—or whether to name him at all. “I really didn’t know whether ...

An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may ...

They call it “the Blob.” A decade ago, sea surface temperatures in the Pacific shot up to 11 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than ...

The emperor penguin that made global headlines after waddling ashore on a beach in Australia has been released back into the ...