If you go to the beach you may comfort yourself with the thought that nothing dangerous is in the shallow waters, but you may ...

Melissa Hobson, doing business as The Ocean Writer Ltd., is a marine science and conservation writer based in Hastings. She ...

Most predators slow down when ocean temperatures shift. Great hammerhead sharks don't—not significantly anyway. These ocean predators are masters of the "thermal hustle," maintaining peak hunting ...

Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, yet globally the microbes number in ...

A jaw tip worn down by nearly a tenth does not sound like much until you picture what it means. Chipping, cracking, scratches and polish do not appear on their own. Something was hitting back. That is ...

A group of apex predators was seen off the coast of California, a company said. Getty Images/iStockphoto The ocean’s top predator was seen on the hunt for its next meal off the coast of California, ...

Ocean acidification, driven by rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, alters the chemical composition of seawater and has profound consequences for predator and prey interactions in marine ecosystems.