Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Choanoflagellates envelop and digest still smaller cells. Ocean ecosystems depend on these predators to consume plant-like ...

Canada's Great Bear Rainforest is a place where the rainforest and Pacific Ocean meet. This special forest is home to countless spruce and fir trees.

a non-profit organisation focused on freeing captive sea animals, has called for its boycott and for the release of the dolphins, which it says are being held in "Latin America's smallest dolphin ...

THIS is the horrifying moment a dolphin leaps to its death during a family show with the ocean ... animals in small tanks. The tank where the dolphins were held has been called "Latin America's ...

Discover 10 astonishing images capturing nature’s tiniest creatures in incredible detail. These stunning insect photographs ...

This endangered cetacean is not only the smallest porpoise species, but the most rare. Where there were once thousands of vaquitas swimming in the sea, today there may only ... Otherwise, any swimming ...

Conservationists are determined to protect the magnificent rays of the Pacific—whether that’s tracking them with acoustic ...

Last summer, the Vancouver Aquarium started offering sea otter encounters, and the Straight had the chance to see what it was like to interact a little more closely with the aquarium’s fluffiest ...

An ornithologist discovered a hummingbird “hive” in Ecuador‘s High Andes—a major departure for the solitary animals.