Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's coastal waters, a new study finds. The team seeks to help ...

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i ...

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...

Well-designed marine parks can conserve marine life and their habitats, allow fish populations to recover, educate the public ...

This past weekend, the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles (MMCC) responded to a call on a rare pygmy sperm whale ...

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, four nonprofits allege the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to meet deadlines on ...

Sea lions can observe and learn from each other’s behavior while effectively communicating through barks and growls, showing ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species.