Most of the world’s reef-building coral species are now considered endangered and 44% of corals globally are at risk of extinction, spelling trouble for nearly a quarter of the marine life that ...

Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, disrupting the global carbon cycle for several hundred thousand years, and ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972, has prevented the extinction of marine mammal species in U.S. waters. Proposed legislation threatens to weaken the act by restricting scientific data ...

An alarming rate of carcasses of whales with empty stomachs washing ashore has been observed in recent years, which has been troubling conservationists and researchers. The famously mesmerizing songs ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Last week, an aerial survey team spotted a whale species not typically seen in the Atlantic Ocean — off the coast of the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. The New England Aquarium ...

NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary contains some amazing deep-sea features: many are familiar with the deep-sea Monterey Submarine Canyon while fewer know of the extinct volcanic mountain ...

NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary contains some amazing deep-sea features: many are familiar with the deep-sea Monterey Submarine Canyon while fewer know of the extinct volcanic mountain ...