In the deep ocean, where sunlight never reaches, and food drifts down like confetti, survival is less about speed and more about strategy. Take, for example, the tripod fish, a creature that can swim ...

The continued warming of ocean waters threatens marine life, a new study demonstrates. According to the Guardian, new research on the effects of rising sea temperatures found that the warming of the ...

A major new study shows long-term ocean warming is steadily reducing fish populations, putting global food security at risk.

An aerial view of the coast and Pacific Ocean taken flying in to San Clemente Island, in San Diego, July 16, 2013. (Mindy Schauer/The Orange County Register via AP) (CN) — Decades before the pesticide ...

Rising human exploitation of the oceans is pushing ever further into regions that scientists increasingly suspect are full of conscious life. New research into creatures from sperm whales to octopuses ...

According to a new study by the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) and the National University of Colombia, chronic ocean warming is driving a nearly 20% annual decline in fish biomass.

FILE - An Atlantic salmon leaps out of the water at a Cooke Aquaculture farm pen on Oct. 11, 2008, near Eastport, Maine. A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to ...

One of Ocean Era's geodesic cages floats in the water near Kona, Hawaii. Ocean Era hopes to launch a similar test project near Sarasota, Florida. (Photo by Rick Decker, courtesy of Ocean Era) The ...

The aquarium business is a multi-billion-dollar industry, but taking reef fish from Hawaiian waters has raised controversy. And there is a research facility on Oahu that is trying to reduce the need ...

PORTLAND, Maine — This year’s marine heat waves and spiking ocean temperatures foretell big changes in the future for some of the largest fish in the sea, such as sharks, tunas and swordfish. The ...

Fish come in every shape and size, but the longest ones are downright startling. While most exist deep in the ocean, these giants could stretch across a basketball court—or three. All of them exceed ...