New research from an international team of researchers indicates that humans pose a higher risk of extinction for marine mammals. Now, for m...

This past Saturday in Australia, the ocean conservation and the motion picture community lost two of its great adventurers. Mike DeGruy of ...

Nature is a very complex, interwoven web of plant and animal species, ecological and environmental relationships, and an endless multitude o...

Most of the exotic wild cats still living in the wild are considered threatened or endangered to one degree or another. They are often pres...

Surfers of the Pacific Northwest are a pretty hardy lot. Their passion for the sport takes them into sometimes freezing cold water, they tr...

For those who watched National Geographic Channel's limited series Expedition Great White , where marine biologist Dr. Michael Domeier t...

Perched on the ledge of a small outcropping of rock, an explosion of white soft coral intermingled with the waving arms of crinoids , again...

Scientists can be an odd lot. They delve into the world of minutiae, seeking the ultimate truths, while knowing that it all may be rewritte...

While in some nations, farmers are subsidized to not grow crops, or vital staples are funneled towards ethanol fuel, or valuable aquaculture...

Often in this blog, I cite some of the new and unusual things we are learning about life in the ocean. Much of it is literally uncharted te...