Over the past few decades, the harvesting of the Cortez oyster in western Mexico’s Marismas Nacionales — or the Marshes ...

Are you looking for information on Cozumel reefs? You’re in the right place. I’ve lived in Cozumel for over a year and I’ve ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of fish in the Gulf of Mexico, the Hypoplectrus espinosai, also known as the ...

Longfin batfish, scientifically known as Platax teira, are a species of “brackish-water” fish typically found in the Western Pacific Ocean, researchers said. As juveniles, batfish have “elongated and ...

The new species was identified off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The body of water was renamed as the Gulf of America by executive order on Jan. 20 by ...

All the information you need about the Cozumel National Marine Park and how it is protecting Cozumel's reefs and marine life.

New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — alongside human-made pollutants contaminating the deep sea.

Not only is the number of species declining ... from microbes and fungi to plants and invertebrates, fish, birds and mammals. "It is one of the largest syntheses of the human impacts on ...

Osmeriformes is a broad order of fish that includes various smelt species found worldwide, both in freshwater and marine environments. Smelt are relatively common across the U.S., particularly in ...

Just a few years after uncovering a trove of exceptionally preserved fossils, paleontologists have now described a brand new fish species that lived and died during the Miocene, 15 million years ago.

But for some species, there is still hope. A community of rare fish enthusiasts collect endangered species of freshwater fish from the lakes and springs of East Africa, Mexico and elsewhere ...