More than 500 baby sea turtles were left stranded on South African beaches after a rare and powerful storm, prompting their rescue by an aquarium, officials said.
The world's oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, courted new suitors recently at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific Ocean.
The Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands recently welcomed a pair of self-bred corals from the World Coral Conservatory project into Europe's largest coral reef.
More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast have returned to sea while 31 died on the shore, according to a researcher.
A new study has suggested that the earliest known bioluminescent organism was a type of coral dwelling in the depths of the ocean about half a billion years ago.
Australian authorities say that a 16-year-old boy was swimming with a 13-year-old in the waters off of Saibai Island when a crocodile killed him. The pair's boat had broken down.
An Oklahoma boy with a precocious passion for marine biology adopted an octopus after years of begging. The octopus, named Terrance, recently had dozens of babies.
Greece has proposed a plan to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to protect marine ecosystems, drawing criticism from Turkey.
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time due to prolonged warming of the oceans, according to reef scientists.
Julia Bernstein, 12, set at least four different fishing records in Florida since January and will be awarded the Fleming Species Award. One of Julia's world records is pending.
Organizations worked to re-release 34 sea turtles into the ocean after spending months nursing them back to health given their poor conditions last winter.
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