The Marine Invasions Research Lab, based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is the nation’s largest program dedicated to monitoring the ocean and coastal regions for invasions by ...

The whitefin swellshark has been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as Critically Endangered for a number of years due to declines largely attributed to fishing ...

The critically endangered whitefin swellshark, a little-known deep-sea species, faces a grim future as climate change ...

Designed to support critical marine studies similar to those used in deep ocean research, the SeaSub (or the RS Lanternfish) ...

Unfavourable ocean and weather conditions, which prevented the whales from being rescued on Wednesday, were forecast to ...

Point Arts & Science Center is excited to welcome Melissa Laurino as its Marine Science Advisor. A Coast Guard 100-ton Master ...

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i ...

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can ...

Beachgoers were shocked to discover an oarfish — a creature whose appearance, according to folklore, can be a good omen or a harbinger of doom.

First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge ...

Researchers found marine fungi capable of breaking down plastic. They tested fungi from Hawai‘i’s nearshore waters.

Choanoflagellates envelop and digest still smaller cells. Ocean ecosystems depend on these predators to consume plant-like ...