If you’re obsessed with ocean animals, you might just be a future marine biologist or aquarist. Both careers revolve around aquatic life, but they play very different roles in understanding and caring ...

If you spend time on a boat, snorkeling, or looking at fish tanks, you may quickly realize that life underwater looks incredibly different than animals and other life that lives on the surface.

In the open ocean, far from coasts and categories, there is a fish that seems to defy the logic of design. It is round where ...

From tracking down famous sunken ships to building drones that study whale populations, the Duke University Marine Lab (DUML) has plunged headfirst into some of the ocean’s most important questions ...

This academic year, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcomes nine new faculty members and researchers to its academic ranks. These scientists and educators bring extensive ...

Dr. Jake Warner with the university’s marine biology department will be leading a research mission to McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Warner’s team is hoping to study how sea urchins have evolved to ...

Listen to UCLA professor Tonya Kane discuss her journey to UCLA, travels abroad and advice for undergraduates. Megan Vahdat: This is “Bruin to Bruin,” a Daily Bruin podcast that interviews influential ...

MIAMI—We were beginning to run out of bait, and the sharks weren’t cooperating. The Garvin didn’t start out as a research vessel. Initially, it was a dive boat that took people to wrecks on the East ...

The day after the University of South Florida’s world-renowned Marine Science Lab went up in flames, students and faculty ...

Marine biologists are more involved in understanding ocean habitats and doing scientific research for publication. Aquarists maintain the health of marine animals in public aquariums. The job of ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women’s History Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories of women in the fields of nature and conservation. When I ...