The Secret Life of Clownfish: When Survival Means Switching Sexes
In most animals, biological sex is a constant throughout life. However, the ocean often makes its own rules. Hidden among…
Climate Stressors Reduce Early-Life Survival in Cold-Water Lobster Species
As their name suggests, cold-water lobsters are a category of lobster that prefer colder climates. They can be found in…
How we are failing our oceans?
Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is quite possibly the most important fish in our oceans. To an outsider, menhaden might seem…
Masters of Evasion: How Cephalopods Thrive in an Ever-Changing Ocean
Cephalopods: squids, octopuses, nautiluses, and cuttlefish, are marine creatures renowned for their intellect and extraordinary ability to adapt to threats…
A Future for Giant Clams: Aquaculture & Reef Conservation
Giant clams and other reef species are facing growing threats as corals reefs continue to decline around the world. Climate…
Sea Otters: Guardians of the Forest
Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris) are a widely beloved aquatic mammal found in the northern pacific (Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Coast, and…
Saving the Living Fossil
Horseshoe crab resting on beach taken by Timothy Fadek https://www.timothyfadek.com/horseshoe-crabs After millions of years, the splitting of the continents and…
How did whaling impact deep sea communities?
Deep-sea communities are heavily limited by food, with a prime source of nutrients being marine snow, which is a term…
New Species Recently Discovered by NOAA
It is estimated that there are between 700,000 and 1 million different species found in the ocean. It is also…
The Thresher Shark
The thresher shark or Alopias Vulpinus belongs to the phylum of chordata. The reason why it falls into chordata is…