Researchers at Aarhus University have demonstrated that a simple adjustment to water filtration methods can dramatically ...

Marine biologists are more involved in understanding ocean habitats and doing scientific research for publication. Aquarists maintain the health of marine animals in public aquariums. The job of ...

A new study found that cultivating seaweed species alongside marine finfish in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women’s History Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories of women in the fields of nature and conservation. When I ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler In the open ocean, far from coasts and categories, there is a fish that seems to defy the logic of ...

John Pearse, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, died on Friday, July 31, at his home in Pacific Grove, California. He was 84 and had been in hospice care for ...

Last Friday night, more than 500 community members packed into Birch Aquarium at Scripps to dance, shimmy and shake off their ...

According to Eric Hancock, spider crabs dance. At least, he likes to think so. Each day at work, the marine biologist walks over to the 500-gallon tank that houses 11 common spider crabs, ranging in ...

Although the subjects of marine biology and biochemistry do not seem to be an obvious pairing, there are a lot of overlaps. The biochemical processes that specialized organisms have developed to live ...

Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. '00, studies the impact of human activities on ocean ecosystems. (Courtesy) Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. ’00, prompted by a high school career test, studied communication at UCLA, ...

The first time Jessica Pate swam beside a manta ray off Florida’s southern coast, the 8-foot-wide fish flipped belly-up and slowed to watch her. “I was kind of obsessed after that,” Pate says. The ...

Kenyan marine biologist Nelly Isigi Kadagi grew up a rough, 17-hour drive away from the sea, but now she is one of the key figures in the conservation of some of the biggest, most mysterious fish in ...