Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

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 ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1960s the amount of parent bluefin tuna fish stocks in the Pacific Ocean was estimated at more than 100,000 tons, but after that it declined significantly due to overfishing. After falling ...

U.S. Congresswoman Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of an ...

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 ...

one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — across the Pacific Ocean, eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made ...

That curious question led scientists to connect oceanographic conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean to fish abundance in its deep twilight zone by measuring how successfully elephant seals ...