News: Marine Science

Just like a person after one too many cocktails, a few drops of oil can cause coral reef fish to make poor decisions.

The researchers developed the method specifically for the Gulf corvina, a popular fish in Mexico’s Gulf of California

Gulf Corvina look pretty ordinary—they're a couple of feet long and silvery. Yet the sounds they make—when millions get together to spawn—are a kind of...

New findings support a hypothesis that complex life, including humans, first arose from the merger of simpler life forms.

These teeny shrimp-like critters at the bottom of the ocean food web seem totally unimportant.

As part of an ongoing tradition, this past spring we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us...

Microbiologists led by Brett Baker have discovered potential in bacteria that helped to clean up the BP oil spill.

Genetic data reveal a group of bacteria that are so diverse genetically that they represent half of all the diversity of bacteria on the planet