The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures, and recently, a massive whale shark, the world’s largest fish, ...

Americans are skeptical of the term environmentalist, so a new report from Aquarium of the Pacific deals with ‘wonder and respect and stewardship’ for sea animals and the ocean.

Fisheries scientists who were fired by the Trump administration say they've been living in limbo as their work is sidelined.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Beneath the sparkling blue waves of the Pacific lies a hidden world teeming with biodiversity, wonder, and weirdness. At Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, visitors ...

That curious question led scientists to connect oceanographic conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean to fish abundance in its deep twilight zone by measuring how successfully elephant seals ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050 ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest ...

Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for ... Not long ago I went snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean, a half mile off the southwest coast of Oahu. The flanks of the Hawaiian island are ...