Bitter cold this month may have wiped out many of the shallow water corals in the Keys.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 30, 2010 4.7 / 5 (16) 8

Iguanas dropping from trees, manatees huddling around waters warmed by power plants and marine turtles being whisked away to shelters -- Florida's unusual cold snap is a deadly one for tropical wildlife.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 09, 2010 4.1 / 5 (17) 129

Scientists studying the massive BP oil spill fear a decades-long, "cascading" effect on marine life that could lead to a shift in the overall biological network in the Gulf of Mexico.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 18, 2010 4.1 / 5 (10) 32

Without maps or GPS, great white sharks travel thousand of miles roundtrip from California to Hawaii or Australia to South Africa. Sea turtles hatched on the beaches of Florida travel the currents of the North Atlantic Gyre ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 28, 2010 3.6 / 5 (9) 1

A sea turtle that lost her front legs to a shark attack was bidding to match "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday, as she donned the latest in artificial flipper technology in Japan.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 12, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 1

NASA's new 'Black Marble' images of the nighttime Earth aren't so black. They reveal that our globe is heavily littered with excessive and wasteful lighting that produces light pollution – a bright glow over o ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 07, 2012 4.8 / 5 (6) 13

Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the oldest fossil remains of a sea turtle that lived 72 million years ago in northern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 06, 2009 4 / 5 (7) 0

(AP) -- Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, has been going around and around and around for most of her life.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 11, 2009 3.9 / 5 (7) 11

(AP) -- Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 17, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 1

A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that used genomics to assess historical trends in population sizes.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 30, 2010 4 / 5 (6) 0

Hundreds of dead penguins and other sea animals have washed up on Sao Paulo state's shores and scientists are investigating the causes, environment officials told Folha Online news agency.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 20, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 0

The United States issued a ruling on Friday saying that five world populations of loggerhead sea turtles are endangered species but four are only "threatened."

Biology - Ecology

Sep 16, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0

Australia on Thursday announced plans to create the world's largest network of marine parks to protect ocean life, with limits placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration off the coast.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 14, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 1

(AP) -- Federal biologists are releasing thousands of endangered baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico, betting that by the time the silver dollar-sized swimmers make it to the oil-fouled waters ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 24, 2010 3.2 / 5 (6) 3

The Joint International Turtle Genomes Consortium, led by investigators from RIKEN, BGI, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, has completed the genome sequencing of soft-shell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) and gr ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 28, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |