which was identified last year as the cause of a mass mortality event in the urchin species Diadema antillarum, is the same ...

In our warming oceans, marine species are moving into new areas and "re-engineering" or often destroying those ecosystems, but scientists say the paradox of overfishing sustainably can help.

A project called The Ocean Census has discovered 866 new species in a global creature-finding mission under the sea.

New IMAS research has determined that overfishing – and eating – of one particular pest is helping to protect delicate marine ...

The discovery could help inform better plans on how to manage the sea urchin population. In 2022 a Senate inquiry into climate-related marine invasive species, specifically the longspined sea ...

A group of microscopic sunflower sea star larva arrived at Shedd Aquarium last year and have been bulking up behind the ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

In our warming oceans, marine species are moving into new areas and 're-engineering' or often destroying those ecosystems, ...

The data sets represent two of the most complete studies looking at the effect of keystone species on local ecosystems. Both research areas were mostly "urchin barrens"—sites where sea urchins ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...