The Aquarium’s Marine Species Report Card aims to inform the public about the health of crucial marine species in California.

Giant isopods of the genus Bathynomus, which can reach more than 30 cm in length, are known as bọ biển or "sea bugs" in Vietnam. For the first time, one such species was described from ...

The ocean is an average of 3.2km deep. Humans know of about 245,000 marine species. The most common sea animals are those without a backbone, such as jellyfish and shrimp. There are thousands of ...

[Related: A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years] Mental ... misconceptions that exist about animals’ behavior. Maybe on the top of that list is the widely held idea that ...

Deep-sea isopods found in markets and restaurants turned out to be a species new to science ... water tanks for customers to buy. It is also common to see advertisements selling ‘sea bugs ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

Leatherbacks are the largest of the seven sea turtle species and one of the most imperiled ... perhaps because turtles share a common ancestor with chickens. All but leatherbacks, with their ...

So far, this new species ... East Sea, Vietnamese part of the South China Sea) and offshore of provinces in south-central coastal of Vietnam. Over the last five years, it has become common to ...

In order to compile this list, we looked only at the total body ... to eat the parasites that often invade their skin so that the animal stays healthier. The Ocean Sunfish, also known as common mola ...