Becky O'Brien always wanted to work with ocean life, but she didn't realize she'd be able to do the job in the middle of the ...
Becky O’Brien, a lead aquarist, dangles herring into a tank teeming with over a dozen sharks, and within seconds, a zebra shark snatches the fish from her tongs. While Ms O’Brien always knew she ...
Here is a rundown of the world’s deadliest sharks – and where you are most likely to encounter them. Each year, unsuspecting divers, surfers, and swimmers suffer shark bites – with some unfortunately ...
There are sharks in Las Vegas and they feast on hundreds of pounds of fish every week - In one week the aquarium goes through over 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of fish ...
Coral can remember the past. Not in the same ways people do, of course, but they do form a sort of memory at the molecular level — a record of the stressful times punctuated by periods of pollution ...
Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other ...
Endangered dusky shark Mira was tracked off the Gulf Coast on March 10, just about 60 miles west of St. Petersburg, Florida.
Weighing up to 500 pounds and measuring more than 11 feet long, bull sharks are massive apex predators that can live in both saltwater and freshwater. They primarily stick to tropical coastlines and ...
Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species on Earth, despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor. However, this immense ...
In recent years, local small-boat fishers who pursue prized bottomfish such as ehu, onaga and the red opakapaka that’s popular on table spreads across Hawaiʻi each New Year’s have seen a troubling ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blackchin guitarfish is a type of shovelnose ray that looks like half shark and half ray. They mainly live in marine and ...
Brazil’s federal government created a huge conservation area on March 6 to protect a critical biodiversity hotspot in the Atlantic Ocean. The newly created Albardão marine park and coastal ...