A legendary 1,700-pound great white shark named Contender has returned to Florida after a year roaming the Atlantic ...

New University of Hawaiʻi research confirms that "Sharktober" is real, revealing a statistically significant spike in shark ...

Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to planetary health ...

In the icy waters of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, beluga whales rely on an unexpected survival strategy: sharing mates over many ...

The Carteret, N.J., resident learned about ocean gliders – autonomous vehicles that collect scientific data and use a ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Among marine mammals, beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) are particularly difficult to study in their icy habitat. To better understand and protect this endangered species, scientists must piece ...

A new study from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that marine microbes had mostly positive interactions with one another during a six-year study. These positive interactions ...

The key to future technologies can sometimes be found in the past. What Ravi Kishore is working to perfect, for example, has ...

Some USF faculty and students are divided on whether the protection act is a scientific necessity or simply an emotional ...

A hidden pigment helps ocean algae harness sunlight without getting burned—and it may hold clues for better solar tech.

Researchers discovered that Hawaiian monk seals use a surprisingly complex range of underwater sounds, including new call ...