Having only learned to swim after being admitted to a marine science program, our June Sea Hero has since dedicated his life to coral reefs and their preservation.
Conservation
On April 5, 2024, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium responded to rescue a distressed smalltooth sawfish after someone called the sawfish
Spearing lionfish and feeding them to non-native predators has long been touted as a conservation-friendly solution to the invasive lionfish problem, but it can have serious consequences for divers
Recent Articles
In this edition of “Ask a Marine Biologist,” Dr. David Shiffman discusses one of the ocean’s most likable echinoderm.
Personalities abound underwater—if you’re paying attention. See how one scientist changed their approach to navigating the depths by starting to think of fauna as friendly encounters, not just subjects to be documented.
Sea Turtle, Inc., is on a decades-long mission to protect the South Padre Island turtle population from threats to their nesting grounds and more.
Corals in the Florida Keys are being ravaged by warming waters, diseases, overfishing, storms and more. Here's how some people are banding together to give them a fighting chance.
Few ocean critters are more charismatic than captivating cephalopods—squid, octopuses, cuttlefishes, nautiluses—and as divers, we can't get enough.
Can sound save coral? One researcher is working to answer this question.
The latest "Ask a Marine Biologist"