Deep Ocean Fish Have Been Disappearing for Decades and Most People Had No Idea ...

The ocean is full of unusual animals, but few catch people off guard quite like the mola mola. It’s a massive, slow-moving disk of a fish with fins that seem placed almost at random, and it drifts ...

Nature is endowed with fascinating creatures that come in all sizes, from tiny sea sponges to massive manta rays that swish ...

By Malavika Vyawahare An annual meeting of the regulatory body overseeing the tuna fishery across the Indian Ocean has agreed ...

A new study from Adelaide University has found that when ocean acidification makes reef habitat less complex, the fish living there gather in smaller shoals that offer less social protection.

Climate change threatens coral reef fishes in myriad ways, but maybe not in all the ways we thought. Some studies have suggested that ocean acidification, one consequence of climate change, might warp ...

Fresh out of the ocean, the scent is of the sea. But give a dead fish a few moments in the sun, and the aroma is another story. Exactly why fish smell the way they do has to do with the natural ...

Three bizarre-looking types of deep sea creatures have been spotted in one of the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean — the Atacama Trench, located up to 7 miles below the ocean’s surface off the coast ...

Dead fish, full of a lifetime of mercury, may function as a vessel of this toxin to the deep ocean. While mercury occurs naturally in the environment, human industrial activities have rapidly ...