WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced critical habitat designations today for five threatened coral species living in the Pacific Ocean. The agency’s final rule protects 92 ...

Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes "that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones," researchers said in a July ...

An extraordinary discovery has been made off the coast of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, in the remote Salas y Gómez Ridge. During a recent expedition led by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, researchers ...

Scientists found red fish with large eyes, canine-like teeth and discovered a new species: tropical single-spined scorpionfish, study said.

Scientists found a new species called the spiky-nosed spookfish, a type of ghost shark, in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean surrounding Australia and New Zealand, the National Institute of ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

Deep-sea operations proposed by a Vancouver-based mining company could cause harm to a wide variety of species in the Pacific Ocean, including whales, dolphins and sound-producing fish, two new ...

Kelsey James/NOAA Fisheries Gary Longo was looking for what he thought would be small genetic differences across a single species of small, ocean-dwelling fish: Pacific sardine. But as he examined ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and allies today secured court-ordered deadlines requiring the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine whether spring-run Chinook salmon in Oregon, ...

Scientists found red fish with large eyes, canine-like teeth and discovered a new species: tropical single-spined scorpionfish, study said.

Scientists found red fish with large eyes, canine-like teeth and discovered a new species: tropical single-spined scorpionfish, study said.

Scientists found red fish with large eyes, canine-like teeth and discovered a new species: tropical single-spined scorpionfish, study said.