“Salps are really weird animals,” said Alejandro Damian-Serrano, an adjunct professor in biology at the University of Oregon's (UO) Institute of Marine Biology. “While their common ancestor with us ...

Genevieve Carlton holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University and earned tenure at the University of Louisville. Drawing on over 15 years of experience in higher education, Genevieve ...

A single vertebra dug out of a boulder in a stream below a mountain in New Zealand in 1978 has now been found to have belonged to the oldest known sea reptile in the Southern Hemisphere, where no ...

This academic year, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcomes nine new faculty members and researchers to its academic ranks. These scientists and educators bring extensive ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

"Sponsored by the University of Hong Kong and the Marine Biological Association of Hong Kong"--P. xii. "Divided into five sessions: Ecology, Pollution, Fouling, Fisheries (including Mariculture) and ...

Professor of marine biology Dr. Kory Evans answers your questions about fish from Twitter. Why are orcas attacking boats? What is the fastest creature in the sea? How do octopi change colors to match ...

Few creatures are more aptly named. The crown-of-thorns, a large, reddish brown sea dweller, has as many as 21 arms, all covered with venomous spines that can temporarily paralyze a swimmer and ...

Jeanne Villepreux-Power created the first scientific aquarium to study marine life live. Her invention disproved long-held myths and shaped modern marine biology despite her being overlooked.

Japanese Ichthyologist Motosaku Fujinaga was still a senior in Tokyo University when he decided on his life’s work: a study of the life and loves of the 6-in., shrimplike creature known as the kuruma ...