By Spoorthy Raman Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding ...

Hydrophiinae The Pacific Ocean’s sea snakes, also known as coral reef snakes, are long and colorful. They are one of the world’s most venomous snakes because their bites, though often painless, can be ...

roughly 6,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean. This means that tracking just 14 seals per year could provide estimates of fish availability across 4.4 million cubic kilometers of ocean volume.

Imagine a fish that is hatched in freshwater ... then makes a massive migration to the ocean where it lives for several years, then migrates back to freshwater to spawn. Most people think of Pacific ...

FEEDING: Juvenile lampreys are filter feeders. Adults are parasitic on other fish, scavenge, or are predators while in the ocean. Pacific lampreys do not feed while traveling to spawn. THREATS: ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

Near an island in the South Pacific Ocean, a bright red sea creature with “canine-like” teeth swam around the coral reef. Maybe it was its vibrant coloring or its spiny body, but something about the ...

All sorts of fish use the fish ladder ... and part of their lives in the salt water of the ocean – but they’re very different creatures. Pacific lamprey are a primitive fish species that ...

Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for ... Not long ago I went snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean, a half mile off the southwest coast of Oahu. The flanks of the Hawaiian island are ...

Rather than making its own light, a shallow-water marine fish gets all the tools that it needs for bioluminescence production from eating tiny, glowing crustaceans. The discovery of ancient clades of ...