The five oceans could easily be considered the last frontier on the planet. Crucial to the world’s ecosystems, approximately ...

The way Botrynema jellyfish is distributed across the ocean may reveal a previously unknown biogeographic barrier in the ...

You’d think that animals adapted to life in the open ocean would ignore arbitrary distinctions like ‘Pacific’ and ‘Atlantic.’ ...

Researchers examined more than 10,000 animal autopsies to figure out how much plastic is too much for ocean wildlife ...

A harbor seal that was rehabilitated at Marine Mammals of Maine is released back into the Atlantic Ocean at Head Beach in ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

A harbor seal that was rehabilitated at Marine Mammals of Maine is released back into the Atlantic Ocean at Head Beach in ...

To date, every family of marine mammal and seabird and all seven species of sea turtles have been documented to ingest ...

By studying more than 10,000 necropsies, researchers now know how much plastic it takes to kill seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals, and the lethal dose is much smaller than you might think.

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Thar she blows! Scientists say moisture from the endangered right whales blowholes yields important health info that could ...