Marine Biology

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first grey whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a...

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life-growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine sp...

'A rewarding glimpse of another world' THE GUARDIAN Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are som...

The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planets strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adven...

In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that a...

Discover the world's ocean--from tides and currents to the creatures living in it to the impact it has on our lives, whether we know it or not--in ...

Coastwise examines the coastline of the British Isles as a dynamic environment and offers you an understandable explanation of how the coastline fu...

The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales entanglement ...

Although Herman Melville''s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work o...

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the int...

Fisheries supply a critically important ecosystem service by providing over three billion people with nearly 20% of their daily animal protein inta...

This Second Edition of Plankton is a fully updated introduction to the biology, ecology and identification of plankton and their use in monitoring ...

On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisi...

Colin Speedie''s new book takes us from swashbuckling hunts of giant sharks by reckless individuals with makeshift harpoons, through an age of mass...

The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolut...

Iain McCalmans brilliant history of the Great Barrier Reef, told in 12 extraordinary tales, charts its shifting status from labyrinth of terror to ...