Fishermen are finding some unexpected tropical fish off the coast of Massachusetts. Here's why.

Thanks to a yellow pigment that filters out sunlight, barreleyes can't be fooled by a common deep-sea camouflage tactic.

Few deep-sea species will cause an entire research vessel’s crew to rush into the control room to catch a glimpse—but the ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Widely cited as the fastest fish in ...

Uncrewed wind-powered vehicles go farther for longer to expand our knowledge of the ocean. The ocean is vast, and fish swim. These are challenges for scientists who need to find out when, where, and ...

Ocean fish stocks have been increasingly exploited over time, and remote sensing shows they have declined in the open ocean ...

Ocean fish populations have fallen dramatically in the past half-century, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse. Governments have designated “marine protected areas”, where where ...

On Pacific tuna vessels, sensors attached to fishing gear collect temperature readings in waters that scientists rarely sample. These measurements ...

Nature protection, conservation and restoration is "not a trivial matter but key to human survival," according to scientists quoted in a 2005 UN report. To demonstrate this, they developed the concept ...

The North Pacific Ocean is a sentinel region for signs of ocean acidification. Approximately 30-50% of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are absorbed by the world’s oceans.