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 ...
A rare, deep-sea fish washed ashore in Carlsbad last week and has since been turned over to biologists at the Scripps ...
The oarfish, which is also referred to as the doomsday fish, is a deep-water creature and spends most of its time floating ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square ... deep-sea sharks, giant clams, fish and coral—including endangered bristle-thighed curlew birds ...
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.