Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean have been shown to adversely affect shell-forming creatures and corals, and now a new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

Fish species that are both economically and ecologically important in South America live mysterious lives. Scientists know relatively little about the thousands of fish species living in the world's ...

Otoliths, the calcified structures within the inner ears of fish, serve as unique chronological archives recording both environmental conditions and life‐history events. The chemical composition of ...

Captured in the wild and raised in tanks at UC Davis, Sacramento splittail fish with spinal deformities, like this one held by Rachel Johnson, have been traced to selenium exposure. Scientists used ...

Fossilized fish ear stones – known as otoliths – can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of palaeontologists from the University of Vienna demonstrated that a refined ...

Cassandra Brooks, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, was in the negotiating room when the Ross Sea in Antarctica became the world’s largest marine ...