Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes ...

roughly 6,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean. This means that tracking just 14 seals per year could provide estimates of fish availability across 4.4 million cubic kilometers of ocean volume.

The oarfish, which is also referred to as the doomsday fish, is a deep-water creature and spends most of its time floating ...

A rare, deep-sea fish washed ashore in Carlsbad last week and has since been turned over to biologists at the Scripps ...

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help estimate ...

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 ...

Fears are being raised that Pacific saury ... will move deeper in the ocean when the water temperature is high, spelling fewer opportunities for the fish to catch their favorite plankton in ...

Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive ... Today’s largest open ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, emerged eight million years ...