Many corals can’t make it through the bleaching events caused by warming ocean waters. But some can – and scientists are trying to learn more about the sources of their resilience.
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Much of what we know about these elusive eels’ life cycle has been based on circumstantial evidence. Now for the first time, scientists tracked an adult eel to its distant spawning ground.
Fish numbers are rapidly dwindling globally, and fishery subsidies are one of the key drivers behind this decline.
Blue bottles have been washing up on beaches lately, but what exactly are they? And are you really supposed to pee on their stings?
Over the past five years we’ve seen a significant increase in research on ocean acidification and warming seas, and their effect on marine life. Overall, unfortunately, the news is not good.
Sharks and other ocean predators help protect the ocean’s carbon stores by keeping other wildlife in check.
Immersion in seawater kills sea turtle eggs, suggesting that sea turtles are increasingly at risk from rising seas, according to research published today in Royal Society Open Science.
The opah fish circulates heated blood through its body like a bird or mammal, meaning it can outcompete its deep sea rivals.
With their natural predators removed, sponges are free to take over coral reefs.
The end-Triassic mass extinction may be better known for preceding the rise of the dinosaurs, but it had a profound effect on oceans too.
A new centre in Indonesia is dedicated to studying the curious and ancient Coelacanth.
How do these massive sea turtles stay on target as they migrate hundreds of miles through featureless open ocean?
But the giants of the future won’t be the same fish, whales and sharks we know today.
Gaze out from the deck of a boat and you will see an ocean that was, in Henry David Thoreau’s phrase, “equally wild and unfathomable always”. There’s a stark contrast in appearance here between the apparently…
It has long been news that overfishing persists in many of the world’s oceans. Fish and invertebrate stocks have been over-exploited for our ever-hungry, growing human population, leaving some species…
Reef historian Iain McCalman, in Sydney, and reef scientist Stephen Palumbi, in California, are monitoring reef degradation from opposite sides of the planet. They compared notes. Iain McCalman: A recent…
This fall, President Obama signed a proclamation that created the biggest marine reserve in the world. By extending the protective boundaries around Wake Island, Jarvis Island and Johnston Atoll from 50…
The Burrunan dolphin, Tursiops australis, has only recently been discovered but is already under threat due to its small and isolated populations. Our team of researchers from the Australian Marine Mammal…
In the summer of 2010-2011 Western Australia experienced an unprecedented heatwave — but not on land. Between December 2010 and April 2011, sea temperatures off the WA coast reached 3C above average, and…
Welcome to tropical Sydney, where colourful surgeonfishes and parrotfishes are plentiful, corals have replaced kelp forests, and underwater life seems brighter, more colourful and all-round better. Or…
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
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Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Professor of Biology and Director, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii
