To keep yourself and your pets safe, avoid water with visible algae and follow all posted warnings and closures.

Hitchhiking animals are more common than you think ... while the New Zealand octopus is a benthic species, living nearly its entire life on the seafloor. “So it just makes no sense how these ...

Types of large sea slugs called the California sea hare and black sea hare can be found off the coast and in tide pools ...

Aboard te Falkor (too) research vessel, a 35-day trek to the South Sandwich Islands led to the discovery of new marine species.

Types of large sea slugs called the California sea hare and black sea hare can be found off the coast and in tide pools ...

Rouken Glen, in East Renfrewshire, took to social media to warn visitors and dog walkers after the blue/green algae was ...

Once every month or so, Charlotte Seid, manager of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection ... role in a Nobel Prize-winning study. Using the animal as a model organism to study short- and long ...

Viana do Castelo floating wind farm home to 270 species; Wind farm “has not had predicted effect of repelling fish”, say ...

Because they constantly filter large volumes of water, reside in the benthic substrate, can’t leave their surroundings ... but they also are one of the most imperiled groups of animals in the country.

There are even specific terms for animals that prefer certain parts of twilight. For example, an animal active only during dawn is called matutinal, while one active only at dusk is called vespertine.