Encountering a Black marine biologist, marine scientist, and even Black certified scuba divers is rare, even in 2024. Zippia data shows that only three percent of all marine biologists identify as ...

Marine biologists play a crucial role in Australia’s ecological stewardship, particularly in understanding and conserving the unique marine ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef. Their expertise ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women’s History Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories of women in the fields of nature and conservation. When I ...

The first time Jessica Pate swam beside a manta ray off Florida’s southern coast, the 8-foot-wide fish flipped belly-up and slowed to watch her. “I was kind of obsessed after that,” Pate says. The ...

Last month, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson wrote a deeply personal essay for The Washington Post. Last month, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson wrote a deeply personal essay for The ...

Milton Love says that along with over eating and nation building marine biology is a national sport. But how to tell a real marine biologist from the riff-raff? Milton Love says that along with over ...

John Pearse, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, died on Friday, July 31, at his home in Pacific Grove, California. He was 84 and had been in hospice care for ...

A team of deep-sea researchers captured video of a sleeper shark prowling nearly 500 meters below the surface near Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands in January 2025, marking the first time the ...

Kenyan marine biologist Nelly Isigi Kadagi grew up a rough, 17-hour drive away from the sea, but now she is one of the key figures in the conservation of some of the biggest, most mysterious fish in ...

A deep-sea camera lowered off the South Shetland Islands, a group of Antarctic islands, was supposed to do what deep-ocean cameras do best: sit quietly in the cold dark and record whatever passes ...

If you spend time on a boat, snorkeling, or looking at fish tanks, you may quickly realize that life underwater looks incredibly different than animals and other life that lives on the surface.