Trump plan puts profits ahead of protecting animals such as Florida manatees, sea turtles and North Atlantic right whales, ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Using the technology has long been considered a way to listen without disturbing. Scientists make surprising discovery while ...

A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary ...

Proposed changes include allowing the government to consider the economic impact before deciding whether a species should be considered endangered.

When the ancestors of terrestrial life on Earth crawled or slithered out of the sea, they formed the starting point for many of the world’s species. Some of these species even made the return journey ...

Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic. Illustration of the extinct Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a sirenian that ...

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...

A mass sea urchin die-off has pushed Canary Islands populations to historic lows, with scientists warning of long-term reef ...

Volunteers have reached another milestone in their effort to re-establish native plants and animal species at the Presidio of ...

The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals ...