Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes "that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones," researchers said in a July ...

Back on the boat, Frable said they realized the specimen was some type of wrasse and matched a photograph of a fish of an unknown species captured by a diver back in 2013.

Mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic, and fabulously exotic, the huge variety of types of saltwater fish to pick for your aquarium will ...

Previous studies in the eastern Pacific Ocean, including in California, revealed differentiation between common bottlenose dolphin populations. However, these were conducted in localized areas.

SAN DIEGO — Researchers say they have discovered a new species of tropical fish during an expedition to remote islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico.Named the Halichoeres sanchezi, or the ...

Scientists found a new species called the spiky-nosed spookfish, a type of ghost shark, in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean surrounding Australia and New Zealand, the National Institute of ...

Scientists have discovered thousands of new species in an area of the Pacific Ocean. They found 5,578 species in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a 1.7 million square mile region. 88% to 92% of the ...

Lyles said his favorite fishing hole – the Pacific Ocean off Southern California – is changing, and not for the better. “We (messed) it up,” he said, nodding at the ocean.

DA NANG, Vietnam — Industrial-scale fishers will no longer be able to use two types of shark-fishing gear in the western and central Pacific Ocean after the international body in charge of tuna ...

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

A massive research initiative to explore deep-sea creatures brought discoveries to light in the northern Pacific Ocean last year, when scientists filmed and captured three fish at depths never ...