Florida’s iconic coral reef is in a critical state, with a mere 2% of its living coral cover remaining, underscoring an ...

Panacea's Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory founder, who's fighting cancer at 83, talks about his remarkable career with sea creatures.

As Apalachicola Bay prepares for a limited oyster harvest, FSU Marine Lab emphasizes the importance of ongoing research and ...

River otters, manatees, seat turtles, penguins and sharks are among the marine animals getting a new home in Florida. Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate ...

However, diseases, pollution and rising ocean temperatures ... Elvira Alvarado and a fellow marine biologist fertilize coral eggs and sperm in the lab, using a pioneering technique to restore damaged ...

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease. The culprit behind this epidemic has ...

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that has ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Since 2013, sea star wasting disease, worsened by warming oceans, has wiped out 99% of sunflower sea stars from Washington state to Mexico, ...

A study published Monday offers clarity on a more than decade-long marine mystery: What has been killing the velvety sunflower sea star? In 2013, something began ravaging sea stars along the West ...

Kara Wiggin is a fifth-year PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying marine biology in the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine (CMBB). Wiggin was raised ...