Oceans

The enormity of the global ocean over centuries of exploration has turned indigenous assessments into rough sketches rather than detailed portraits.Now scientists have developed a precise method for discovering one of the ocean's more…

For most divers, few underwater spots match the visual thrill of a kaleidoscopic coral reef teeming with colorful fish. For Jeff Milisen, a marine biologist and photographer in Kona, Hawaii, there is no better place to dive than an open…

"For some of us it was just, 'ugh, those dung whales are in my data," said Dr. Caplan-Auerbach. Humpback whales have historically paused their research on Lo'ihi Seamount, an underwater Hawaiian volcano. "We had Tons and tons of whale…

Although clownfish are conceived on coral reefs, they spend the first part of their lives as larvae floating in the open ocean. The fish are not yet orange, striped or even swimming. They are still plankton, a term derived from the Greek…