More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics ...

In 1903, former UW zoology professor Trevor Kincaid and UW botany professor T.C. Frye founded what is now called the Friday Harbor Laboratories in the San Juan Islands. The islands’ rich and diverse ...

“Reefs are not just piles of skeletons or shells,” said Juan Esquivel-Muelbert, the study’s lead author from Macquarie ...

A new study provides a comprehensive global synthesis of how vessel traffic affects large marine wildlife, including whales, ...

Plastic waste releases a chemical that can confuse ocean animals, change hunting behavior, and disrupt marine food chains.

Born in 1809, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection and helped set the foundation for how modern scientists classify organisms, cementing hims ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

A new study provides a comprehensive global synthesis of how vessel traffic affects large marine wildlife, including whales, ...

More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics accumulate in coastal ...