Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ocean is massive and covers most of the surface of our planet. In addition to its size, it’s packed with life, ranging from an ...

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 ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is more than a place to look at cool fish and marine life. It's a nonprofit public aquarium that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study by marine biologists reports that seals can essentially act as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in the ocean's eerily dim 'twilight zone.' Over the past 60 years, marine ...

Sportfishing and environmental groups say tougher regulations are urgently needed for commercial catch of menhaden, a small species crucial to ecosystems along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf Coast. A ...

HONOLULU — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a ...

The ocean is massive and covers most of the surface of our planet. In addition to its size, it’s packed with life, ranging from an astounding diversity of plants, microbes, worms, corals and crabs to ...