The July 14 excursion had a treat in store for passengers: a 90-foot blue whale, the San Diego Whale Watch said on Facebook. The group first caught a glimpse of long-beaked common dolphins riding ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t have a ...

From the Monterey Bay Aquarium: “The ocean sunfish ( Mola mola) looks like the invention of a mad scientist. Huge and flat, ...

When marine biologist Marianne Nyegaard went on a diving holiday to Bali, she did not realise it would set her on a path ...

There are two species of seahorse in the British Isles – the short-snouted seahorse and the spiny seahorse. Both species are mostly found along the south and west coasts of England and Wales but have ...

Some sunfish can reach lengths of eight feet and weigh up to 5,000 pounds. The aquarium says sunfish can be found throughout the world and are known to travel as far as 17 miles in a single day.

One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New Zealand biologist Marianne Nyegaard identified it from photographs and ...

A mola mola, or ocean sunfish, washes up dead on an Oregon Beach: Seaside Aquarium. The fish can reach lengths of up to 10 feet and weigh up to 5,000 pounds.