Experimentation unit will enable researchers to test the ability of organisms found in deep water environments to deal with the effects of a spill

Team adds new details to our understanding of the nature of life way down under

Deoxygenation due to climate change threatens marine life

Scripps researchers suggest risk assessment to protect human health

"We brought up the most amazing and colorful animals I had ever seen on an expedition," principal investigator says

"We found significant differences for all the impacts we considered," says the study's lead author Carl Schleussner

An idea first proposed 138 years ago that limbs evolved from gills, which has been widely discredited due to lack of supporting fossil evidence, may prove correct after all

Illuminating fishing nets is a cost-effective means of dramatically reducing the number of sea turtles getting caught and dying unnecessarily

Seagrasses evolved from marine algae, the ancestors of land plants, and are the only flowering plants to have returned to the sea.

Genetic analysis by Scripps team correctly pinpoints species on the tree of life