NOAA report finds Gulf of Maine warming slowed, but ecosystem unstable
Maine’s fishing ports are doing well for now, but climate change is destabilizing the Gulf of Maine, according…
Scary Finding in Catfish: a Contagious Cancer
Researchers on a Vermont-Quebec border lake have stumbled onto something never seen in fish before: a cancer…
Underwater whale graveyard is home to jellyfish and bone-eating worms
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars…
Argentina rescues 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya in exotic wildlife seizure
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Argentine authorities have seized more than 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya in what…
Kraken-like octopuses may have been top predators during the Cretaceous
NEW YORK (AP) — The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million…
Scientists say the world’s oldest octopus fossil isn’t an octopus after all
LONDON — A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists…
300-million-year-old sea creature loses title as world’s oldest octopus
LONDON (AP) — A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after…
Even McDonald’s tries to follow the lean Lenten diet in Greece
TRIKORFO, Greece (AP) — Can a centuries-old ritual of spiritual renewal rekindle a New Year’s resolution to build…
A red tide in South Africa is causing the mass deaths of crayfish
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A toxic algae bloom known as a red tide is causing the…
The fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite protection promises
KYLEAKIN, Scotland — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye,…
Destructive bottom trawling in Scotland despite promises to protect oceans
KYLEAKIN, Scotland (AP) — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of…
Oysters, crab and $400,000 worth of lobster meat stolen in New England
CONCORD, N.H. — Imagine the buffet. Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were…