Authorities in Honduras have seized a jaguar kept as a pet by a businessman, in a high-profile raid that conservationists say ...

China and Norway are working to expand the Southern Ocean krill fishery, promoting a new management system for the fishery ...

A tourist who drew widespread condemnation in Hawaii after a witness recorded him chucking a coconut-sized rock at “Lani,” a beloved, endangered Hawaiian monk seal off a Maui beach, was arrested ...

Hawai’i Marine Animal Response representatives discuss the work the nonprofit has accomplished in the past 10 years and what ...

Makena was walking along the shore when she spotted a frisbee-like toy, half-buried in the sand. Intrigued, she picked it up ...

A sea lion pup found itself in an unfamiliar spot, strolling around San Francisco several blocks from the ocean. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department said that in the early hours of ...

An alarming number of sea mammals are washing up on Southern California beaches. Experts predict a possible connection to run off from the Los Angeles wildfires earlier in the year. NBC News' David ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...

If you pick up plastic trash from a beach, you’re helping protect marine wildlife from harm. And every little piece—from a plastic bottle cap to food wrappers—matters, because even small amounts of ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...