We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Some fish change colors to blend in with their environment, but the stargazer fish has a different camouflaging technique. It ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New ...

Fish flee for their lives in rare, chilling video of bottom trawling. The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new ...

In the darkness of the cinema during screenings of Sir David Attenborough’s new film, Ocean, it is not uncommon to hear ...

Attenborough ignores pollution; he ignores crashing plankton populations, microplastics, and the economics that drive ...

Sir David Attenborough has told Prince William he is "appalled" by the damage certain fishing methods are wreaking on the world's oceans. The Prince of Wales interviewed the TV naturalist ahead of a ...

By prioritizing marine conservation, the small island nation has "set a new standard for leadership" one expert said.

The bottom of the net, weighed down so it scrapes along the seabed, swallows up everything in its path – fish, crustaceans, plants, mud – as it advances inexorably, faster than a walking pace ...

19 countries ratified the treaty during the conference, while other nations, such as the UK, formally committed to ratifying ...

A ban on a "destructive" type of fishing that drags large nets along the seafloor could be extended across English waters, the government has said. The proposal would expand the ban on bottom ...