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

SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) — Researchers say they have discovered a new species of tropical fish during an expedition to remote islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Named the Halichoeres sanchezi ...

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 ...

1 nuclear power plant. And despite the presence of small amounts of radioactive tritium, it said no abnormalities have been detected in Pacific Ocean fish stocks. Aug. 24 marked the first ...

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 ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the ... Colder temperatures can also “inhibit coral growth rates” and “fish may experience shifts in their ...