Coral reefs are surprisingly noisy places, and scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography suspected that noise might ...

If you’ve ever wondered what is a baby fish called, the answer is more interesting than you might expect. In the world of aquatic life, baby fish are not just given one name for their entire early ...

A common close partnership which sees baby fish sheltering from predators among the poisonous tentacles of jellyfish will be harmed under predicted ocean acidification, a new study has found. A common ...

Teeming off Hawaii’s famous beaches is a complex web of life—sharks, turtles, seabirds—that relies enormously on tiny larval fish, the food for many species. In their first few weeks of existence the ...

We’re slowly realizing that we’ve contaminated an enormous swath of the planet, from the deepest ocean trenches to the highest mountain peaks, with plastic. Animals haven’t been spared, either. In ...

There are so many amazing animals in the world, and each one has its own story. People often give animals fun nicknames based on how they look or behave. For example, a dog is sometimes called "man's ...