Our research revealed that many marine animals, from little penguins (about 30cm long) to pygmy blue whales (nearly 20m long), travel at depths of around three body thicknesses under the surface.

Studying the physiology and ecology of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals through methods ranging from molecular ecology to tracking the movements of individuals and populations using ...

This course examines the biology and ecology of marine ecosystems ... these ecosystems are changing and the future impact of human stress on the marine environment, as well as animal behavior, ...

The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

US President Donald Trump reversed a target set by his predecessor Joe Biden to eliminate plastic straws across government ...

Kiel. Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. This was found by an international team of researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski ...

Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

12, 2025 — Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable ... which alters the aquatic animal ... Feb. 6, 2025 — New research finds some baleen ...

In order to conserve threatened and endangered marine animals, it is necessary to understand how and where they eat, sleep, breath and mate. At one time, the most reliable method available for ...

For example, ecologists may study microbes living in the soil under your feet or animals and plants in a rain forest or the ocean. The many specialties within ecology, such as marine, vegetation, and ...

The Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force—which ... role of this region's coastal lift-net fisheries in its cetacean ecology, the researchers acknowledge that exclusive use of this method ...