A giant sea bass swims amid kelp at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. Kelp is highly sensitive to environmental changes. Fluctuations in temperature, light availability, nutrients and ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered ... to floating sponges tethered to the rocks like aquatic balloons and a giant sea cucumber dubbed the "gummy squirrel".

Explore the ocean depths with your family at one of these top-rated aquariums, filled with fascinating sea creatures and hands-on exhibits.

Blackened vegetation dotted the hillsides rising above Pacific Coast Highway ... debris and toxic residue into the ocean. No one yet knows how sea life will respond to an urban fire of this ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they need our help to recover.

Blackened vegetation dotted the hillsides rising above the Pacific Coast Highway ... debris and toxic residue into the ocean. No one yet knows how sea life will respond to an urban fire of ...

A massive sea creature has been found in the Pacific Ocean near Malaulalo, Solomon Islands. The creature stretches over 100 feet wide and is 300 years old.

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...

She rose from afternoon slumbers with something pinching her tail. Three feet below the surface of San Diego Bay her equine ...

Smith said a rise in the Bay Area's Hindu and Buddhist communities has made sea ... to the ocean through California's ...

The giant creature, measuring 34 metres, isn't a fish, or even a marine mammal like a whale, but Pavona clavus - a species of colonial stony coral.