When I was a child I lived next to the Androscoggin River. Sludge floats of toxic industrial waste flowed past my home and out to sea. Fish died by the millions. In 1970 President Richard Nixon ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...

The footage, captured in Spain's Canary Islands, shows the female fish, whose Latin name translates to "black sea monster," swimming through the light-filled ocean waters off the coast of Tenerife.

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 ...

Neither of them could have guessed it was an oarfish — a deep-sea creature rarely spotted on the surface whose infrequent appearances have inspired centuries of folklore that the fish are both ...

For the first time, a deep sea angler fish was spotted last week in daylight. The incident was iconic, especially for the shark research organization Condrik Tenerife. This shark and stingray research ...

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that what was previously thought to be a unique seaweed species of bladderwrack for the Baltic Sea is in fact a giant clone of common bladderwrack ...

Ships and floating buoys only allow measurements of a tiny fraction of the ocean, while satellites can't measure below the surface where fish occur. Importantly, this zone holds the majority of ...

The fish’s ultrablack body is for camouflage in the deep ocean. “A lot of organisms are producing light — they glow kind of like lightning bugs,” Mr. Frable said. “You don’t want to ...

“It may have to do with changes in ocean conditions and increased numbers of oarfish off our coast,” Frable said. “Many researchers have suggested this as to why deep-water fish strand on beache ...

Another noted, “What is going on in the bottom of the ocean that has all these deep sea fish suddenly surfacing?” Last year, the rarely seen oarfish was seen at least 3 times. In the past few ...

Instead of a more typical mild or white-fleshed fish like cod, Evans had gathered two kinds of rich-fleshed sustainable ocean fish for us to try: skin-on speckled trout and mahi-mahi. He dredged ...