BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) — Students from the Midwest visited the Institute for Marine Mammals Studies (IMMS) Thursday to learn about what makes the Gulf Coast and its native animals so special. The ...

The University of the Virgin Islands’ Reef Response Program is inviting community members to step into the shoes of a coral ...

The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one ...

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 ...

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

Kristyn Plancarte approaches content creation the same way she approaches marine biology: with patience, curiosity, and a responsibility to the audience on the other side of the screen. As the creator ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Often portrayed as aggressive ocean predators in popular films, great white sharks play a critical ecological role in marine environments. Many have been pinged off the South ...

Every year, thousands of shark and ray fins are smuggled across international borders, hidden in plain sight in shipping containers or mislabeled among other cargo. For authorities tasked with ...

A Mexican marine biologist with decades of experience studying sharks faced a life-threatening encounter in September when a Galapagos shark clamped down on his head during a tagging operation near ...

A rumor that has circulated online since 2018 claims that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push marine biologist Nan Hauser around while she was underwater, seemingly to ...

While working off the coast of Costa Rica, renowned Mexican marine biologist Mauricio Hoyos sustained serious injuries after being attacked by a shark. Costa Rica’s Fire Department responded to a call ...