Science & the Sea

Many people are familiar with the annual growth rings in tree trunks. Most fishes have similar features in their bodies;...

Laguna Madre — Mother Lagoon — is one of the saltiest bodies of water on the planet. The narrow lagoon...

By the late 1960s, many Americans were getting fed up with bad news about the environment. A book early in...

Anyone who has tried to hitch a ride on a moving train knows it’s all about getting a really good...

The last time you saw a film in 3D, you probably weren’t grabbing for a tasty meal that seemed to...

You’ve probably heard of mice making their way through a maze, and you may even have seen an octopus navigate...

Sea turtles use flippers to swim and glide through the water or sometimes crawl across the beach—anything related to moving...

Most people think of great white sharks as the top predator of the sea, and they are among the largest,...

It’s the question every parent fears: Who is your favorite child? In the case of Magellanic penguins—if their chicks could...

Descending several hundred feet toward the twilight zone of the ocean, there’s usually too little light to perceive any colors....