Whatever may be the driving force, killer whales’ use of tools is a remarkable discovery, especially when few animal species ...

Marine animals can be fascinating and quite beautiful. However, you should not approach some of them. Certain fish and jellyfish are highly poisonous, and contact with them can sometimes be fatal.

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and ...

Rosie Williams was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In 2017, a new global treaty was meant to bring mercury pollution under control. But three decades of data from UK harbour ...

Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic end up in oceans across the world. Unable to distinguish that trash from natural food sources, many marine animals end up ingesting it. While ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

A new study of major U.S.-based online retailers of marine fish bound for aquariums found that nearly 90% of traded species are sourced exclusively from the wild, including a number of threatened ...

Photos taken by blackwater divers offered a new glimpse into the early life stages of marine fishes and their interactions with other animals. By Alexa Robles-Gil Every night after dusk, one of the ...

Traces of DNA in the environment can tell us how species' ranges are changing as a result of increasing sea temperatures. But scientists caution that we still need other expertise and data to fully ...

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of the deep sea, marine life is far more globally connected than previously ...

A global study tracking nearly 13,000 marine animals representing 111 species reveals they spend 80% of their time in just 63% of their range, yet only about 5% of these high-use ocean areas are ...